The First Rainbow Coalition
56min
-2019
-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
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Lee
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Rush
Self (archive footage)
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