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A group of Latinx teens huddled together, laughing and smiling, with one student wearing a Harrison Hornets jacket.

Looking through a shattered window to a group of police officers who were in front of the protesters, presumably outside the school.

A Young Lord is arrested at the Puerto Rican Heritage Festival, August 23, 1969.

Students of Austin High School on the West Side march toward the Loop to protest underfunding of mostly nonwhite schools, October 8, 1968.

Exterior of building at University of Illinois at Chicago campus, c. 1970.

A group of people attend a Center for Autonomous Social Action (CASA) meeting in 1975. Rudy Lozano is seated in the foreground.

Cha Cha Jimenez (in black) photographed at the People’s Church.

Rudy Lozano (foreground) during a Center for Autonomous Social Action meeting in 1975.

Festivities continue well into the evening at the Puerto Rican Heritage Festival, August 23, 1969.

Food being served at the Puerto Rican Heritage Festival on Armitage Avenue, August 23, 1969.

Fred Hampton, the leader of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, speaks to children during a free breakfast program at 1512 South Pulaski in the Cicero neighborhood of Chicago in April 1969.

Vandalized statue in Marshall Square which is located in front of the school.

Harrison students protest in the rain on October 10, 1968, nearly a month after protests began.

Overhead view of The Young Lords and the Black Panthers marching on Daley Center on April 12, 1970.

Protest sign that reads "Your taxes help kill! Resist!" during the Young Lords and Black Panthers' march on the Daley Center on April 12, 1970.

Protesters march in Pilsen in 1977. The sign in the foreground reads, "2 major fires in 8 days / Pilsen demands 1. Full investigation 2. Fire prevention program 3. More Latino fire fighters."

Protesters march in Pilsen in 1977. The sign in the foreground reads, "Why no Latino firemen in Pilsen."

Rudy Lozano at a Center for Autonomous Social Action meeting in 1975.

Rudy Lozano at a Center for Autonomous Social Action meeting in 1975.

A group of African American students demonstrate against the Board of Education in front of the Picasso sculpture where a few of them are wearing masks and hovering over a coffin with the “Board of Education” painted on it.

The Young Lords and the Black Panthers marching on Daley Center on April 12, 1970. The sign reads, "Today, the Panthers / Tomorrow, You / Stop oppression."

Volunteers cleaning, painting, and setting up the new childcare center at the People’s Church at 834 Armitage Ave.

Unidentified Young Lords at the Puerto Rican Heritage Festival on Armitage Avenue, August 23, 1969.

Young Lords painting murals and setting up furniture inside their community center at 834 Armitage Ave.