Welcome to the
Young Lords Internet Resource!

Welcome to a new website dedicated to providing students, researchers, community activists, and anyone else who's interested with information about the New York Young Lords. As a researcher, I have been frustrated by the lack of information readily available about the Lords and wanted to offer a general contribution so that other folks interested in the Lords would be able to approach the subject with a little more ease.

This website was started years ago and has been supplanted by the newly available book, The Young Lords: A Reader (NYU Press, 2010). The book has been called "the documentary sourcebook on the Young Lords" (Juan Flores) and a "tour de force" (Angelo Falcón). That said, I'm keeping the resources already online up -- so please keep scrolling down to see more.

What's Online Now

Research Resources

• A Bibliography of New York Times Articles on the Young Lords
• Links to the Young Lords on the Internet

Documents from the Young Lords

• The Original Program and Platform of the Young Lords (October 1969)
• The Young Lords Rules of Discipline
• The Young Lords Position Paper on Women (September 1970; PDF)
• The Revised Program and Platform of the Young Lords (November 1970)
• Ten-Point Health Program
• Statement on Abortion (March 1971; PDF)
• Position on Women's Liberation (May 1971; PDF)
• Pamphlet Entitled The Ideology of the Young Lords Party (PDF)

If you have resources on the Young Lords that you'd be interested in sharing, putting on the Internet, or just informing me about, PLEASE email me at palante@younglords.info. To find out more about the person building this resource, follow this link. Thanks for visiting and please be sure to come back often!

"The colonized man [sic.] who writes for his people ought to use the past with the intention of opening the future, as an invitation to action and a basis for hope." (Franz Fanon, THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH)