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The First Rainbow Coalition

Because I'm saying somethingthat might wake up some other exploited peopleor some other...

Because I'm saying something
that might wake up some other exploited people
or some other oppressed people, and if all these people
ever get together, then these pigs
that are exploiting us, we'll be able to run them
into the lake

Full Transcript

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Because I'm saying something that might wake up
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some other exploited people or some other oppressed people,
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and if all these people ever get together,
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then these pigs that are exploiting us,
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we'll be able to run them into the lake.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
17
Timestamp in Movie
00:38:00
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.
[gospel choir singing] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:23
[gospel choir singing]
The question is between resistance to this fascism - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
The question is between resistance to this fascism
All: X power for those left out. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
All: X power for those left out.
- The 20-year-old chairman - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:28
- The 20-year-old chairman
- Chicago police took 'em out. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:17
- Chicago police took 'em out.
- When Fred Hampton was killed around 4:00 in the morning, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:11
- When Fred Hampton was killed around 4:00 in the morning,
People from all over the city came to be witnesses - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:17
People from all over the city came to be witnesses
- Government couldn't make him and couldn't destroy him. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
- Government couldn't make him and couldn't destro...
- I recall Jesse Jackson speaking. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- I recall Jesse Jackson speaking.
- I tried to--tried to not show any emotion, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:10
- I tried to--tried to not show any emotion,
- When he finished, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
- When he finished,
A lot of people underestimated what the government would o - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:16
A lot of people underestimated what the government would o
- I am personally grieved over the death of Fred Hampton - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:09
- I am personally grieved over the death of Fred Hampton
So it is that those who are symbolic - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:12
So it is that those who are symbolic
- They sprayed this wall with .30-caliber machine gun fire. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:17
- They sprayed this wall with .30-caliber machine gun fire...
- All indications to me, personally, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
- All indications to me, personally,
These bumbling police officers that carried that out, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:11
These bumbling police officers that carried that out,
- I said that - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:32
- I said that
They were killing the whole movement. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
They were killing the whole movement.
[ethereal ambient music] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:29
[ethereal ambient music]