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The First Rainbow Coalition

The Red Squad, they take your picture, just as these people are taking my picture here. -...

The Red Squad, they take your picture, just as these people are taking my picture here. [ominous music] - The Red Squad. Their purpose was to identify and observe and even arrest people that were considered to be communist or socialist
or on the Red side

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- The Red Squad,
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they take your picture,
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just as these people are taking my picture here.
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[ominous music]
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- The Red Squad.
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Their purpose was to identify
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and observe and even arrest
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people that were considered
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to be communist or socialist or on the Red side.
Duration
22 seconds
Views
41
Timestamp in Movie
00:28:50
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.
We were at this particular rally. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:08
We were at this particular rally.
So from the front of the room, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:24
So from the front of the room,
[dreamy ambient music] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:20
[dreamy ambient music]
Here's the state's attorney. He can-- - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:13
Here's the state's attorney. He can--
- They are brutalizing their own neighbors. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
- They are brutalizing their own neighbors.
- They were not criminals - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
- They were not criminals
It allowed the police department to chase them - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:13
It allowed the police department to chase them
- Reverend Bruce Johnson was the pastor of the churh - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:09
- Reverend Bruce Johnson was the pastor of the churh
- And we're already begun taking in applications - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- And we're already begun taking in applications
- Now the city of Chicago began attacking the revered - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:13
- Now the city of Chicago began attacking the revered
All we wanted was to get some help for our communit. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:14
All we wanted was to get some help for our communit.
They went in where the people - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:17
They went in where the people
But that dry run, they were so frustrated - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:12
But that dry run, they were so frustrated
They knew that we were going to begin to get - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:10
They knew that we were going to begin to get
I think that they should also - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:32
I think that they should also
I have no apology to make to anyone for our country. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
I have no apology to make to anyone for our country.
- To a great extent, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
- To a great extent,
- I was in the hole in Double Lock, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:28
- I was in the hole in Double Lock,
I believe that's why he was killed. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:12
I believe that's why he was killed.
- Before a raid, the police would hit the field... - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- Before a raid, the police would hit the field...