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Young Lords
In Lincoln Park
Interviewee: Ana Encarnación
Interviewers: José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez
Location: Grand Valley State University Special Collections
Date: 7/10/2012
Biography and Description
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. This is significant to note because it was the same barrio on either side of North
Avenue, and on either side of Interstate 94. It was demonstrated later by community activists that the
city used some areas of this highway to divide neighborhoods. The Puerto Rican barrio of the early
1960s stretched all the way from La Clark into Lincoln Park, and then west into Wicker Park and into
Humboldt Park. For sure, then it was never called by those official names, as those were only the official
city neighborhood boundaries which common folk Puerto Ricans were unaware existed. Their
neighborhood was only one, as they shopped at the same stores, went to the same theatres, churches,
restaurants, entertaining themselves at the same parks, beaches, and social eventsMs. Encarnación
recalls that the early 1950s in Puerto Rico were rough for someone like her who sympathized with the
Nationalist Party of Don Pedro Albizu Campos. She was never a member of the Party, but she loves
Puerto Rico and has always wanted Puerto Rico to belong to the Puerto Ricans and to break from under
the control of the United States or anyone else. 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. Although Ms. Encarnación would hear
the negative things that the police and the media were saying about the Young Lords, she says she did
not believe any of it. She had already experienced a similar kind of repression in Puerto Rico in the 1950s
as she herself was persecuted, and so she watched only for what she believed to be true. She was
determined at all costs to not let the authorities prevent her from becoming politically engaged in the
Lincoln Park community. Ms. Encarnación was in nursing and so she began to work in the Young Lords’
Emeterio Betances Free Health Clinic. The clinic was directed by Martha and Alberto Chavarria; Mr.
Chavarria was the Young Lords’ Minister of Health. The Chavarrias are of Mexican descent and arrived at
the Young Lords’ People’s Church on Armitage Avenue and Dayton Street via their membership in the
Medical Committee for Human Rights. This committee was founded by Dr. Quentin Young. Dr. Young
also helped to set up neighborhood clinics for the Black Panthers, providing his own personal funds
when necessary and helping to secure used equipment and other hospital resources. Doctors, medical
and nursing students were recruited to volunteer in the clinics. Dr. Quentin Young and the Medical
Committee for Human Rights had a progressive history that included providing emergency medical care
for the protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. Dr. Jack Johns was the
doctor on duty at the Betances Clinic. He and a committee that Ms. Encarnación was a member of
directed the clinic for many years, long after the Young Lords left the People’s Church. The clinic was
later transferred to St. Teresa’s Church. 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.
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Young Lords in Lincoln Park Collection
Subject
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Young Lords (Organization)
Puerto Ricans--United States
Civil Rights--United States--History
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Personal narratives
Social justice
Community activists--Illinois--Chicago
Description
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Collection of oral history interviews and digitized materials documenting the history of the Young Lords Organization in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Interviews were conducted by Young Lords' founder, José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, and documents were digitized from Mr. Jiménez' archives.
The Young Lords in Lincoln Park collection grows out of the ongoing struggle for fair housing, self-determination, and human rights that was launched by Mr. José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords Movement. This project is dedicated to documenting the history of the displacement of Puerto Ricans, Mejicanos, other Latinos, and the poor from Lincoln Park, as well as the history of the Young Lords nationwide.
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Jiménez, José, 1948-
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<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/491">Young Lords in Lincoln Park collection (RHC-65)</a>
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
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2017-04-25
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eng
spa
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Text
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RHC-65
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2012-2017
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Título
Spanish language Title entry
Ana Encarnación vídeo entrevista y biografía
Sujetos
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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
Source
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/491">Young Lords in Lincoln Park (RHC-65)</a>
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RHC-65_Encarnacion_Ana
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Ana Encarnación video interview and biography
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Encarnación, Ana
Description
An account of the resource
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.
Contributor
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Jiménez, José, 1948-
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Subject
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Young Lords (Organization)
Puerto Ricans--United States
Civil Rights--United States--History
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Puerto Ricans--Personal narratives
Spanish language--Personal narratives
Social justice
Community activists--Illinois--Chicago
Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Social life and customs
Medical care--Illinois--Chicago
Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions
Urban renewal--Illinois--Chicago
Puerto Rico--Autonomy and independence movements
Language
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spa
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a>
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Moving Image
Text
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video/mp4
application/pdf
Date
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2012-07-10