The First Rainbow Coalition
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Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices in one of America’s most segregated cities. A timely story of collective action, The First Rainbow Coalition tells this little-known chronicle of political struggle with insight and urgency using archival footage and interviews with those who lived it.
Production
Nantes Media, LLC, ITVS, Black Public Media, Latino Public Broadcasting
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Fred Hampton
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Lee
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Rush
Self (archive footage)
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