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They were encountering a white ethnic population

The First Rainbow Coalition

They were encountering a white ethnic population that had already been settled there for...

The First Rainbow Coalition • 2019

They were encountering a white ethnic population that had already been settled there for many decades. ♪ ♪ - We were from Puerto Rico and we settled in the northern part of downtow. ♪ ♪ [train rattling] Lincoln Park became about 40% Latino. [surf rock music] Everybody was neighbors, everybody was family. [suspenseful music] If you were Puerto Rican and you went into an Italian or Irish neighborhood, you could get killed. So there were certain
boundaries that we knew, the whole community knew,
that they couldn't go there

Full Transcript

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They were encountering a white ethnic population

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that had already been settled there for many decades.

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♪ ♪

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- We were from Puerto Rico

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and we settled in the northern part of downtow.

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♪ ♪

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[train rattling]

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Lincoln Park became about 40% Latino.

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[surf rock music]

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Everybody was neighbors, everybody was family.

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[suspenseful music]

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If you were Puerto Rican

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and you went into an Italian or Irish neighborhood,

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you could get killed.

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So there were certain boundaries that we knew,

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the whole community knew, that they couldn't go there.

Duration

47 seconds

Views

30

Timestamp in Movie

00:04:23

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.