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I was in the hole in Double Lock

The First Rainbow Coalition

I was in the hole in Double Lock, which is where they usually put me in the jail. The...

The First Rainbow Coalition • 2019

I was in the hole in Double Lock, which is where they usually put me in the jail. The warden of the jail came and he took me to his apartment and he put the TV on. - This being the first Sunday
since the Reverend and Mrs. Bruce Johnson
were murdered-- - He was stabbed 17 times and his wife 9 times because he wanted to work
with the Young Lords

Full Transcript

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- I was in the hole in Double Lock,

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which is where they usually put me in the jail.

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The warden of the jail came

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and he took me to his apartment

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and he put the TV on.

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- This being the first Sunday since the Reverend

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and Mrs. Bruce Johnson were murdered--

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- He was stabbed 17 times and his wife 9 times

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because he wanted to work with the Young Lords.

Duration

28 seconds

Views

35

Timestamp in Movie

00:35:22

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.