The First Rainbow Coalition

The First Rainbow Coalition

56 mins | Documentary | Oct. 24, 2019

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.

The First Rainbow Coalition

56 mins | Documentary | Oct. 24, 2019

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.
Producers Independent Television Service (ITVS), Latino Public Broadcasting, Nantes Media, LLC, Black Public Media (BPM)
Original title The First Rainbow Coalition
Directors Ray Santisteban
Writers

Cast

Fred Hampton

as Self (archival footage)

Bobby Rush

as Self (archival footage)

Bobby Lee

as Self (archival footage)