The First Rainbow Coalition
2019•56m•7.5•Released
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.
Director
Ray Santisteban
Languages
English
Studio
Nantes Media, LLC
Cast
Fred Hampton
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Lee
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Rush
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
Nantes Media, LLC
Company
ITVS
Company
Black Public Media
Company
Latino Public Broadcasting
Producer
Ray Santisteban
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