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So to prove our point

The First Rainbow Coalition

So to prove our point, we picked up chairs and started throwing them around, tore up all...

The First Rainbow Coalition • 2019

So to prove our point, we picked up chairs and started throwing them around, tore up all the plumbing, trashed the entire place. We shut down the Department of Urban Renewal for about three months. That was a victory.
[chuckles] - I come from a people in the neighborhood that never worried about threats from anyon. And as far as...
- I know, but have you-- - I'm concerned, there'll be
law and order in this town as long as I'm mayor

Full Transcript

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So to prove our point,

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we picked up chairs and started throwing them around,

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tore up all the plumbing, trashed the entire place.

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We shut down the Department of Urban Renewal

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for about three months.

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That was a victory. [chuckles]

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- I come from a people in the neighborhood

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that never worried about threats from anyon.

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And as far as... - I know, but have you--

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- I'm concerned, there'll be law and order in this town

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as long as I'm mayor.

Duration

29 seconds

Views

25

Timestamp in Movie

00:11:37

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.