Ana Encarnación video interview and biography

Notes:

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.

Date Created:

2012-07-10T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries

Subject Topic:

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, and Puerto Rico--Autonomy and independence movements

Language:

spa

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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a>

URL:

https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/24349