Carletta Fields

The civil rights and Black Power movements inspired other minorities to form their own groups to fight repression and racism. Once such group was the Young Lords, an Hispanic group in Chicago. Their cause was the subject of a story by Carletta Fields, the Illinois Chapter Reporter for the Black Panther Newspaper, in the May 19, 1969 edition.

In this country where illegality is systematic and injustice deliberate, not only Black people but Brown people as well, suffer the brunt of repression. The American eagle, with its predatory instincts . . . and Miss Liberty, with her deliberate ruthlessness, tramples on those people they find it profitable to attack and crush. America compresses its oppressed between an atmosphere of vileness and a ground of hostile instability and dares them to challenge the mediums. The Young Lords Organization, a Latin-American revolutionary group who are working in Chicago, have dared...