Essay On Jose Jimenez

“Tengo Puerto Rico en mi corazón” (“I have Puerto Rico in my heart”), Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez said this because he had a lot of feelings for his nationality he helped many puertoriquenas to gain power and overcome more in life. Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez was born august 8,1948 in Caguas, Puerto Rico, to jibaro parents. His mother Eugenia Rodriguez arrived from Puerto Rico in 1949 and took Jose to New York City, then to a migrant camp near Boston where they were reunited with José's father, Antonio Jiménez. Then they finally moved to Chicago. Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez was the founder of the Young Lords as a national human rights movement. It was found in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago on September 23,1968. Jose Jimenez was important because he helped many people with their human rights, gain power and respect, and speak up for themselves.

Human rights was one of the most important things that anyone has to have and that many do not have. The problem in Chicago and in New York the Puerto Ricans were treated less being Hispanic by the white people gave it so much priority. “They began to organize more community actions and programs, including demonstrations for: welfare rights, women’s rights, against police brutality, and for self determination for Puerto Rico and other Latin American
“When the group became political it was about self-determination for Puerto Rican other Latino nations and community control. These intertwined culturally with gaining respect for Latinos from white Lincoln Park gangs.When the Young Lords initially formed, the white gangs viewed Hispanics as a disruption to the Lincoln Park neighborhood”. The Hispanics had no respect and no power on the part of white people, many people because white people feel superior Hispanics but not all of them. The Young Lords speak up for their rights made protests for people to see that they wanted more equality with