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This is the aim of the present administration

The First Rainbow Coalition

This is the aim of the present administration and we're gonna go through with it. - We...

The First Rainbow Coalition • 2019

This is the aim of the present administration and we're gonna go through with it. - We were just talking on the street corner and at the bars about how the neighborhood was changing and that. And then we found out about a meeting at the Community Conservation Council. ♪ ♪ We walked in there; there was a model display with areas that are vacant, and these were Puerto Rican areas. And we saw nothing but about 12 white men there
directing the meetings, so we told them, "No more meetings here "unless you have black, Latino, and poor white representation in your council." And they looked at us
like we were crazy

Full Transcript

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This is the aim of the present administration

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and we're gonna go through with it.

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- We were just talking on the street corner and at the bars

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about how the neighborhood was changing and that.

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And then we found out about a meeting

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at the Community Conservation Council.

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♪ ♪

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We walked in there;

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there was a model display with areas that are vacant,

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and these were Puerto Rican areas.

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And we saw nothing but

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about 12 white men there directing the meetings,

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so we told them,

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"No more meetings here

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"unless you have black, Latino,

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and poor white representation in your council."

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And they looked at us like we were crazy.

Duration

46 seconds

Views

43

Timestamp in Movie

00:10:52

Uploaded

Jun 17, 2025

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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.