The riots, directly and indirectly, inspired the creation of many Puerto Rican community organizations, such as the Spanish Action Committee of Chicago (SACC); the Latin American Defense Organization (LADO); the Bickerdike Revedelopment Corporation; and in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ASPIRA Association.The primarily Puerto Rican national movement of the Young Lords was founded by Jose Cha Cha Jimenez and began officially on September 23, 1968; two years later.
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They ran the founder of the Young Lords Movement, Jose Cha Cha Jimenez as their candidate for alderman and he garnered 39% of the vote, in a three way race.
The few winning court rulings were too little too late as families were once again forced out of their homes in Lakeview, Wicker Park and the Humboldt Park neighborhoods.
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Next to Lake Michigan and next to downtown Chicago, it has become a showcase as one of the richest neighborhoods of the world.
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When the Young Lords were just a street gang they respected and looked for guidance from dominant Black gangs like the Egyptian Cobras and the Almighty Vice Lord Nation as well as the Black P. Stones, a new large group from the Urban Renewal designated area of 63rd street.
The Daughters of Mary or Damas de Maria were also organized by Clotilde Rodriguez, Monin Jimenez, family members of the Flores, Calixto,Lugo,Lucas, Rivera, Trinidad and Eugenia Rodriguez, mother to Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, the founder of the Latino human rights organization the Young Lords.
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In 1969, the Young Lords and 350 local community residents led by Jose Cha Cha Jimenez and aided by seminary students, sat in at the seminary's administration building and held it for a week, demanding $650,000 to be invested in low income housing.