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And the Young Lords went looking for the fight

The First Rainbow Coalition

And the Young Lords went looking for the fight. We went to Benny's Pizzeria and demanded...

The First Rainbow Coalition • 2019

And the Young Lords went looking for the fight. We went to Benny's Pizzeria and demanded to be serve. Or going to the beach and cracking open heads
with beer bottles, just so that we can go to the beach. [dramatic music] And then there was "West Side Story," the first movie about Puerto Ricans. And so all the Young Lords went to the Biograph Theater, and that's where we got our colors, the Puerto Rican gang in the movie. Everybody went
and used red dye and dyed their shirts purple,
and that became our colors

Full Transcript

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And the Young Lords went looking for the fight.

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We went to Benny's Pizzeria and demanded to be serve.

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Or going to the beach

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and cracking open heads with beer bottles,

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just so that we can go to the beach.

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[dramatic music]

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And then there was "West Side Story,"

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the first movie about Puerto Ricans.

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And so all the Young Lords went to the Biograph Theater,

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and that's where we got our colors,

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the Puerto Rican gang in the movie.

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Everybody went and used red dye

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and dyed their shirts purple, and that became our colors.

Duration

41 seconds

Views

27

Timestamp in Movie

00:05:18

Uploaded

Jun 17, 2025

Genres

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.