Ana Encarnación video interview and biography

Jiménez, José, 1948-

Ana Encarnación is from the San Juan metropolitan area of Puerto Rico and describes growing up there in the late 1930s and 1940s. She arrived in Chicago in the 1950s, settling in Old Town, along the border dividing Old Town from neighboring Lincoln Park. She lived on the south side of North Avenue, at the corner of Sedgewick. When the Young Lords decided in 1968 to start to defend the Puerto Ricans and the poor from being displaced, it was her dream come true to join the Young Lords Movement. She saw it as a way to help her people. Ms. Encarnación was in nursing and so she began to work in the Young Lords’ Emeterio Betances Free Health Clinic. Ms. Encarnación describes how the volunteer staff, including herself, not only provided many long hours of free services to the Puerto Ricans and poor of Lincoln Park but when money was low, they also donated from their own personal savings to keep the clinic afloat.

2012-07-10

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

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Ana Encarnación vídeo entrevista y biografía

Young Lords (Organización)

Puertorriqueños--Estados Unidos

Derechos civiles--Estados Unidos--Historia

Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)

Puertorriqueños--Relatos personales

Idioma español--Relatos personales

Justicia social

Activistas comunitarios--Illinois--Chicago

Puertorriqueños--Illinois--Chicago--Vida social y costumbres

Centros médicos--Illinois--Chicago

Puertorriqueños--Illinois--Chicago--Condiciones sociales

Renovación urbana--Illinois--Chicago

Puerto Rico--Autonomía y movimientos independentistas