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 ...

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

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

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, 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 ...

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 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 ...

The Young Lords in Chicago became the national headquarters, with chapters forming in New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee. In 1969, Jiménez joined forces with Fred Hampton of the Black Panther P ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.