This fascinating book charts the history of the predominant chapter of the Young Lords Organization formed in East Harlem and the Bronx. A politicised, multi-ethnic movement that sprung from Puerto Rican discontent in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighbourhood in the mid-1960s, the Latino-led civil rights group expanded substantially within pockets of Puerto Rican communities in major US cities throughout the decade. Focusing on the ingrained social issues of the era such as the inadequacy of public health, sanitation, housing, employment and social resources, despite their relative eminence at the time, the Young Lords are often overlooked in their consequence by movements such as the famed and radical Black Panthers. Thus this is the fist major publication to extensively cover the origins, tactics and subsequent impact of the Young Lords as an imperative movement of the era's progress and history.
In collaboration with the Bronx Museum of the Arts' 2014 exhibition entitled Demand and Supply: Legacies of the Young Lords in Art and Activism, the book uses the untapped wealth of documentary photography by Hiram Maristany, Michael Abramson, and Carlos Flores alongside a wealth of political posters, flyers and facsimiles from the YLO's bilingual newspaper Pa'lante. Further media transposed from the exhibition include transcripts and stills from radio, television and newsreel coverage, creating a comprehensive and highly important document of social change.