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The First Rainbow Coalition

End to oppression. - We were connected to the world and uniting with all these struggles....

These are communities who are struggling for very much of the same goals: end to oppression. - We were connected to the world and uniting with all these struggles. That was the beauty of it. The world was on fire
and we were part of that flame

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These are communities who are struggling
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for very much of the same goals: end to oppression.
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- We were connected to the world
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and uniting with all these struggles.
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That was the beauty of it.
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The world was on fire and we were part of that flame.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:27:29
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.
[grim ambient music] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:20
[grim ambient music]
They were meant to scare the police, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:13
They were meant to scare the police,
- This was a complete challenge to the structure, you know? - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- This was a complete challenge to the structure, you know?
It wasn't saying, "Let us in." - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:10
It wasn't saying, "Let us in."
We didn't want in, so he didn't have a handle on us. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:17
We didn't want in, so he didn't have a handle on...
- The Red Squad, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:22
- The Red Squad,
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