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The First Rainbow Coalition

The concept helped elect Harold Washington mayor of Chicago. - Blacks, whites, Hispanics...

The concept helped elect Harold Washington mayor of Chicago. - Blacks, whites, Hispanics have joined hands to form
a new Democratic coalition

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The concept helped elect Harold Washington
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mayor of Chicago.
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- Blacks, whites, Hispanics
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have joined hands to form a new Democratic coalition.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:50:18
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.
- The Rainbow Coalition, it presented a possibility. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
- The Rainbow Coalition, it presented a possibility.
You know, it gave us a vision for what could be - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:15
You know, it gave us a vision for what could be
- They are the members of what Jesse Jackson calls - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:35
- They are the members of what Jesse Jackson calls
Racial profiling has to stop, Mr. Speaker. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
Racial profiling has to stop, Mr. Speaker.
Just because someone wears a hoodie - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:16
Just because someone wears a hoodie
Clearly that didn't happen, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:09
Clearly that didn't happen,
It's still in the psychic memory of people in Chicag. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:10
It's still in the psychic memory of people in Chicag.
We made a better community. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:44
We made a better community.
- You know, the whole concept of coalition politics - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:09
- You know, the whole concept of coalition politics
- Fred was saying, we didn't start the movement. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
- Fred was saying, we didn't start the movement.
We're part of a protracted struggle - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
We're part of a protracted struggle
- And so we need to reenergize ourselves - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
- And so we need to reenergize ourselves
- Bobby Lee, before he passed away, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:35
- Bobby Lee, before he passed away,