Both the first wave and second wave of Puerto Rican community leaders felt that culture was an important component of the political dynamics within their community.
Later members of the community were concerned with solving their community’s problems without the aid of the local government. The first wave of Puerto Rican leadership in Philadelphia that emerged in the post-war period felt that its primary responsibility was to raise awareness of the obstacles that their community faced. The cause of this fracture was the development of radicalism within younger members of the community and the lack of centralized leadership within Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican community.
During the period of the 1960’s and 1970’s, the Puerto Rican community in Philadelphia transformed politically from a community that was willing to collaborate with the municipal power structure to a community that was politically fractured.
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