The Rise and Fall of The Young Lords

The Young Lords: A Radical History
By Johanna Fernández
University of North Carolina Press
480 pages

Today on Gotham, Beth Harpaz speaks with Johanna Fernández, Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, about her new book, The Young Lords: A Radical History. One of the most influential groups of the radical 1960s, the Young Lords were an organization of poor and working-class Puerto Ricans, which began as a street gang and rose to confront the racism of institutions from government to religion. Fernández traces their roots and tells the story of their rise and fall.