He retooled the Young Lords into a militant advocacy and service organization, modeled after the Black Panthers. Based in Chicago, it had chapters nationwide. By Clay Risen José Jiménez ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Longtime Chicago activist and organizer José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, who transformed the Young Lords from a Lincoln Park neighborhood street gang into a civil and human rights ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...

"Cha Cha" Jimenez was the founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition. What started as a ...

José Cha Cha Jiménez speaks during a protest by the Young Lords and others after the fatal shooting of Manuel Ramos by a police officer in May 1969. Chicago Sun-Times archives Along with several ...

José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, civil rights activist and founder of the Young Lords Organization, died Friday, Jan. 10. He was 76.

At left, José Cha Cha Jiménez, chairman of the Young Lords Organization, a Chicago-area Puerto Rican civil rights group. WBEZ “It was a group of people fighting side by side in an alliance for ...

In 1968, Jiménez founded the Young Lords Organization at Lincoln Park, one of Chicago's most impoverished neighborhoods. He transformed what was once a Puerto Rican street gang into a political group ...

The Young Lords in Chicago became the national headquarters, with chapters forming in New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee. In 1969, Jiménez joined forces with Fred Hampton of the Black Panther P ...