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The First Rainbow Coalition

♪ I'm workingon the building ♪ - Students for a Democratic Society came into the...

all: ♪ I'm working
on the building ♪ - Students for a Democratic Society came into the community and they formed JOIN, Jobs or Income Now. They were talking about the civil rights movemen. We started getting a political ideology. - Trying to help the people in the neighborhood with the landlords. It sounded better to me than what I was doing

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all: ♪ I'm working on the building ♪
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- Students for a Democratic Society
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came into the community
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and they formed JOIN, Jobs or Income Now.
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They were talking about the civil rights movemen.
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We started getting a political ideology.
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- Trying to help the people in the neighborhood
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with the landlords.
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It sounded better to me
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than what I was doing.
Duration
27 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:13
Uploaded
Jun 17, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Nantes Media, LLC,ITVS,Black Public Media,Latino Public Broadcasting

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Movie Summary

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.
I was a kid running the street. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:19
I was a kid running the street.
The green color is the Negro community - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
The green color is the Negro community
This area cannot take any Negroes - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
This area cannot take any Negroes
[crowd shouting] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:21
[crowd shouting]
Segregation in Chicago was locked in. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:30
Segregation in Chicago was locked in.
- From the Cook County Democratic Party - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:16
- From the Cook County Democratic Party
What Daley did is not to challenge that on any leve, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:41
What Daley did is not to challenge that on any leve,
[applause] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:22
[applause]
- Oh, yes! - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:20
- Oh, yes!
Urban renewal was a racist plan - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:15
Urban renewal was a racist plan
This is the aim of the present administration - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:46
This is the aim of the present administration
So to prove our point, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:29
So to prove our point,
I wasn't doing anything. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
I wasn't doing anything.
Police everywhere aggravating everybody. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:34
Police everywhere aggravating everybody.
And we knew that we could either give up - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:16
And we knew that we could either give up
Who do I complain to? - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:14
Who do I complain to?
[gunfire and sirens wailing] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:09
[gunfire and sirens wailing]
[foreboding music] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:16
[foreboding music]
That was Daley. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:13
That was Daley.
- The Democratic Convention, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:51
- The Democratic Convention,