The First Rainbow Coalition
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.
Cast: Fred Hampton, Bobby Lee, Bobby Rush
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The First Rainbow Coalition
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.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Ray Santisteban
- Producers
- Leslie Fields-Cruz, Ray Santisteban, Lois Vossen, Sally Jo Fifer
- Cast
- Fred Hampton, Bobby Lee, Bobby Rush
- Studio
- Nantes Media, LLC, ITVS, Black Public Media
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