The First Rainbow Coalition
7.5201956 min
Documentary
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.
Top Cast
Fred Hampton as Self (archive footage),Bobby Lee as Self (archive footage),Bobby Rush as Self (archive footage)
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Production
Nantes Media, LLCITVSBlack Public MediaLatino Public Broadcasting