The First Rainbow Coalition

The First Rainbow Coalition

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 24, 2019

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

75%

Original Title

The First Rainbow Coalition

Production Companies

Nantes Media, LLC, ITVS, Black Public Media (BPM), Latino Public Broadcasting

Director

Ray Santisteban

Description

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.