This project is a website of a digital exhibit highlighting several efforts of community control in Harlem. I look at the Young Lords and Operation Move-In as examples of radical community control and their anti-poverty and mutual aid agenda.
Creators
Yaritza Aguilar
Library Staff
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![images of front page of website "Community Control and Gentrification in NYC" including image of three young people in an urban environment](/sites/default/files/styles/large_840/public/Cover%20Photo_0.png?itok=UrT3sLvT)
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![Text explaining the Young Lords "Garbage Offensive," along with an image of Young Lords members moving trash cans into the street in protest of poor sanitation](/sites/default/files/styles/large_840/public/Garbage%20Offensive.png?itok=HUiJq0s5)
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![Text and image explaining the anti-gentrification "Operation Move-in"](/sites/default/files/styles/large_840/public/Operation%20Move%20In.png?itok=j0VFzCdE)