In 1970, members of the Young Lords “liberated” a mobile chest X‐ray unit, moving it to another location in East Harlem to test immigrants of this ethnicity for tuberculosis. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this ethnicity of Teodoro Moscoso, who ran an economic modernization campaign known as Operation Bootstrap under the supervision of Luis Muñoz Marín (“moon-YOSE mah-REEN”).
ANSWER: Puerto Rican [or people from Puerto Rico; or Puertorriqueños or Boricuas; accept Puerto Rican-American; accept Nuyorican; prompt on Latinos or Latinas or Hispanic]
[10h] The New York chapter of the Young Lords also started this 1969 initiative during which they blocked traffic to protest environmental racism against groups like Puerto Ricans.
ANSWER: Garbage Offensive
[10e] As part of the Garbage Offensive, the Young Lords demanded environmental justice reforms in a “Ten-Point Health Program” that was inspired by this organization’s 1966 “Ten-Point Program,” written by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
ANSWER: Black Panther Party [or Black Panthers; or BPP]
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