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 ...
In 1968, José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez enrolled in a course to earn a high school diploma to fulfill a judge’s requirement after a 60-day stint in Cook County Jail on drug charges. The teacher took the class ...
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 and ...
Jiménez migrated from Puerto Rico to the mainland at age two with his mother, Eugenia, once his father had saved enough money working as a farm laborer in the Northeast. The family moved to Chicago in ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil ...
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