Young Lords Organization

CTL-E-0467 · Organization · other · unspecified

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Puerto Rican Chicago organization, led by José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, that joined the 1969 Rainbow Coalition with the Black Panther Party.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-155; source research type(s): Organization. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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