Puerto Rico native and social justice leader José “Cha Cha” Jiménez died at age 76. According to NBC News, his sister Daisy ...

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 co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition has died. He was 76. His sister, Daisy ...

He retooled the Young Lords into a militant advocacy and service organization, modeled after the Black Panthers. Based in ...

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

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, chair of the Young Lords, stands June 11 ... late 1960s and early 1970s fighting gentrification in Lincoln Park, allying with other organizations in Chicago to ...

Jiménez in the 1960s founded the Young Lords as a street gang to counter the growing hostility toward the Puerto Rican community in Lincoln Park, at the time one of the most impoverished ...

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 ...

Jiménez in the 1960s founded the Young Lords as a street gang to counter the growing hostility toward the Puerto Rican community in Lincoln Park, at the time one of the most impoverished ...

Prominent Puerto Rican Civil Rights Leader José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez Dies at 76 José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords ...