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Segregation in Chicago was locked in
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The First Rainbow Coalition

Segregation in Chicago was locked in. ♪ ♪ Mayor Daley had used virtually every instrument...

Segregation in Chicago was locked in. ♪ ♪ Mayor Daley had used virtually every instrument of government to keep it segregated. [ominous music] - Daley, who served as mayor from 1955 to 1976, was, at his peak, the most powerful, the most influential
urban figure in America

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Segregation in Chicago was locked in.
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♪ ♪
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Mayor Daley had used
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virtually every instrument of government
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to keep it segregated.
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[ominous music]
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- Daley, who served as mayor from 1955 to 1976,
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was, at his peak, the most powerful,
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the most influential urban figure in America.
Duration
30 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:31
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.
- 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,
- See, one of the things - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:11
- See, one of the things
We're gonna be patriotic to the community, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
We're gonna be patriotic to the community,
That's our way of being patriotic. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:16
That's our way of being patriotic.
- We're not a racist organization - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
- We're not a racist organization
- Fred was such a powerful speaker - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:09
- Fred was such a powerful speaker