Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

YOUNG LORDS LOTS 383 - 386 383 383 c   (YOUNG LORDS.) A Rifle, a Militant, a Casket. Associated Press photograph, 7 1 / 2 x 10 inches; minor wear, captioned in image, no markings on verso. New York, 19 October 1970 [200/300] “A member of the Puerto Rican militant group, the Young Lords, stands guard with a shotgun near the casket of Julio Roldan at an East Harlem church. . . . Roldan was found hanged in his cell in the Tombs prison in Manhattan Friday. The police say his death was a suicide; the Young Lords claim he was murdered. The Young Lords seized his body and barricaded themselves in the church.” 384 c   (YOUNG LORDS.) Group of newspapers relating to Puerto Ricans from the Young Lords and beyond. 9 newspapers, 17 x 11 inches; minor to moder- ate wear. Vp, 1969-71 [400/600] Palante Latin Revolutionary News Service, the newspaper of theYoung Lords Party in NewYork, Volume II, issue #11. 11 September 1970 * YLO, newspaper of theYoung Lords Organization in Chicago,Volume II, issue #6, March [1970]. Includes coverage of the recent occupation of the Spanish Methodist Church in New York (see lot above) * 7 issues of the far less radical academic quarterly, Caribbean Review, published in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico; broken run from Summer 1969 (Volume 1, issue #2) through Summer 1971. 384