The First Rainbow Coalition

The First Rainbow Coalition

24/10/2019 0h 56m 7.5/10

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.

Director

Ray Santisteban

Top Billed Cast

Bobby Rush

Bobby Rush

Self (archive footage)

Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton

Self (archive footage)

Bobby Lee

Self (archive footage)

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