We Took the Streets
Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords
An inside look at the Young Lords, the radical Puerto Rican activist group of the 1960s, from one of its founding members.In 1968 Miguel Mickey Melendez was a college student, developing pride in his unique cultural identity as Cuban and Puerto Rican, while growing increasingly aware of the lack of quality health care, education, and housing-not to mention respect-his people endured for the sake of the American Dream. He was not alone. Bringing together other like-minded Latino student activists, like Juan Gonzalez, Felipe Luciano, David Perez, and Pablo Yoruba Guzman, Melendez helped to form the central committee of what would become the New…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-5832-9
- EAN: 9781466858329
- Produktnummer: 22462843
- Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 357 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph insert
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Miguel Mickey Melendez; With a Foreword by Jose Torres
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