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José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, a prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader and founder of the Young Lords Organization ... "opposing Mayor Richard J. Daley’s gentrification plans, reshaping ...
Today’s young people, too, should have the chance to know what the Civil Rights Act means for them ... Mississippi in which to live.” As Archie Richard of Benton County wrote, with a 12 ...
Washington County supervisors allowed a handful of public comments from advocates asking for a local civil rights ordinance Tuesday morning, but say they still don't plan to take action on it for the ...
Throughout the country in the early 1960s, the issues of civil rights — voter’s rights ... but mostly absent on Broadway. In 1962, Richard Rodgers produced the first musical he had attempted ...
“Stop in the Name of Love,” “Love Child,” “I’m Livin’ in Shame,” and “The Young Folks ... Rabaka, Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of the Civil Rights Movement (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, a prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader ... to his work with the Young Lords, Jiménez was also ...