The First Rainbow Coalition (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.
- Date of release
- 2019-10-24
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Ray Santisteban
Casting
- Fred Hampton — Self (archive footage)
- Bobby Lee — Self (archive footage)
- Bobby Rush — Self (archive footage)
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