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The Rainbow Coalition
was about uniting communities so that we can make revolutionary change. Our communities were all struggling for the same caus. In unity, there was force. - Urban Southern whites with Puerto Ricans and black. I don't think there had ever been anything that substantil in any urban environment. What was going on
in your neighborhood, the same thing was going on
in my neighborhood, you know?
was about uniting communities so that we can make revolutionary change. Our communities were all struggling for the same caus. In unity, there was force. - Urban Southern whites with Puerto Ricans and black. I don't think there had ever been anything that substantil in any urban environment. What was going on
in your neighborhood, the same thing was going on
in my neighborhood, you know?
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- The Rainbow Coalition
was about uniting communities
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so that we can make
revolutionary change.
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Our communities were all
struggling for the same caus.
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In unity, there was force.
00:00:11.744 --> 00:00:16.547
- Urban Southern whites
with Puerto Ricans and black.
00:00:16.616 --> 00:00:19.001
I don't think there had ever
been anything that substantil
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in any urban environment.
00:00:21.354 --> 00:00:23.788
What was going on
in your neighborhood,
00:00:23.856 --> 00:00:27.992
the same thing was going on
in my neighborhood, you know?
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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.
