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The First Rainbow Coalition

So it is thatthose who are symbolic of challengingAmerica's injustice tend to have to...

So it is that
those who are symbolic of challenging
America's injustice tend to have to die
unless we make a real radical and revolutionary change
in this society

Full Transcript

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So it is that those who are symbolic
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of challenging America's injustice
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tend to have to die unless we make a real radical
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and revolutionary change in this society.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:41:51
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.
- 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]
So it was a down time, man. It was bad. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
So it was a down time, man. It was bad.
[train creaking] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:31
[train creaking]
And that he was... - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
And that he was...
And that's why I knew I had to come, you know, here. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:10
And that's why I knew I had to come, you know, here.
And Cha Cha coming behind, Rainbow Coalition Part 2. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
And Cha Cha coming behind, Rainbow Coalition Part 2.
- Mr. Robert E. Lee, sir. [laughs] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:11
- Mr. Robert E. Lee, sir. [laughs]
- How Fred would say it, you can kill a revolutionary - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- How Fred would say it, you can kill a revolutionary
You know, they're in the room. - Mm-hmm. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
You know, they're in the room. - Mm-hmm.
- You know, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- You know,
[laughter] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:17
[laughter]
I just wanted to know, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
I just wanted to know,
- Just keep serving the people, man. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
- Just keep serving the people, man.
You know, for just three or four hours a day, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
You know, for just three or four hours a day,
You know, like my mom would say, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
You know, like my mom would say,