José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, a prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader and founder of the Young Lords Organization, has died.

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 ...

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

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Family and friends of José "Cha Cha" Jimenez will pay their respects after the civil rights figure died last week. "Cha Cha" Jimenez was the founder of the Young Lords in Chicago ...

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 ...

The Young Lords, as transformed by Jiménez into an activist organization, found a purpose in particular as the Puerto Rican community was being pushed out of Lincoln Park in the late 60s.

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