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The First Rainbow Coalition (2019)

The First Rainbow Coalition (2019)

Documentary
Release Date: 2019, October 24
Directors: Ray Santisteban
Countries: United States of America
Production: Nantes Media, LLC, ITVS, Black Public Media, Latino Public Broadcasting
Cast: Bobby Lee, Fred Hampton, Bobby Rush

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

chicago, illinois 1960s black panther party rainbow coalition