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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, 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.

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José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition, died Jan. 10 at 76. His sister, Daisy Rodríguez,

The Young Lords founder, who died Friday, inspired youth from different backgrounds to work together to fight for equality and social justice, family and friends said.

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Puerto Rico native and social justice leader José “Cha Cha” Jiménez died at age 76. According to NBC News, his sister Daisy Rodríguez announced the sad news in a Facebook post on January 10. “IT IS WITH A HEAVY HEART AND SUCH SADNESS THAT I HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THAT MY BROTHER JOSE CHA-CHA JIMENEZ PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING,

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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. Jiménez in the 1960s founded the Young Lords as a street gang to counter the growing hostility toward the Puerto Rican community in Lincoln Park,