The Young Lords began as a Puerto Rican turf gang in the Chicago neighborhood of Lincoln Park in the fall of 1960 and as a civil and human rights movement on Grito de Lares, Puerto Rican Independence Day, September 23, 1968.hat day the Young Lords gave out 30,000 buttons with Tengo Puerto Rico En Mi Corazon inscribed on them. In the fall of 1995, Chicago Young Lords' Tony Baez, Carlos Flores, Angel Del Rivero, Omar Lopez lópez And Angie Lind adorno were brought together again By, jimenez jiménez to Form The Lincoln. park project