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The First Rainbow Coalition

Housing issues, police brutality, just being fed up. That's what we could all agree on. -...

Housing issues, police brutality, just being fed up. That's what we could all agree on. - The Panther Party in Chicago, they're not only organizing the Young Lords. They're creating coalitions with another vanguard
revolutionary group called the Young Patriots

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Housing issues, police brutality,
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just being fed up.
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That's what we could all agree on.
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- The Panther Party in Chicago,
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they're not only organizing the Young Lords.
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They're creating coalitions
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with another vanguard revolutionary group
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called the Young Patriots.
Duration
20 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:34
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.
Poor white people - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:10
Poor white people
- That flag meant blood and murder. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:08
- That flag meant blood and murder.
Everybody gets uptight - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
Everybody gets uptight
- So you had some Panthers that couldn't handle it, man. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
- So you had some Panthers that couldn't handle it, man...
- We always had the flag. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:16
- We always had the flag.
The contradiction makes people think. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:18
The contradiction makes people think.
You first respect - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
You first respect
- We started going around with him. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:09
- We started going around with him.
- We say to pig Daley, hammerhead Hanrahan, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:11
- We say to pig Daley, hammerhead Hanrahan,
- Class consciousness cuts across - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
- Class consciousness cuts across
For poor white people to be working - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:19
For poor white people to be working
We're gonna fight racism not with racism, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
We're gonna fight racism not with racism,
- This was during the peak of the Black Power era. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:12
- This was during the peak of the Black Power era.
And in order to eliminate racism, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:23
And in order to eliminate racism,
- Children were going to school hungry, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:13
- Children were going to school hungry,
Instead of just asking people for something, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:49
Instead of just asking people for something,
We're out there every day and educating. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
We're out there every day and educating.
And I think the Black Panther Party is doing tha. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:20
And I think the Black Panther Party is doing tha.
We talked about Fred Hampton a lot. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:51
We talked about Fred Hampton a lot.
[crowd chanting] Poor people power! - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:12
[crowd chanting] Poor people power!