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The First Rainbow Coalition

♪ ♪ - All of us had to go on our own separate ways. ♪ ♪ I had gone back to my hometown...

[train creaking] ♪ ♪ - All of us had to go on our own separate ways. ♪ ♪ I had gone back to my hometown and had gotten harassed there. They considered me to be a communist. It always followed us around
everywhere we were

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♪ ♪
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- All of us had to go on our own separate ways.
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♪ ♪
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I had gone back to my hometown
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and had gotten harassed there.
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They considered me to be a communist.
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It always followed us around everywhere we were.
Duration
31 seconds
Views
31
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:05
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.
And that he was... - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
And that he was...
And that's why I knew I had to come, you know, here. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:10
And that's why I knew I had to come, you know, here.
And Cha Cha coming behind, Rainbow Coalition Part 2. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
And Cha Cha coming behind, Rainbow Coalition Part 2.
- Mr. Robert E. Lee, sir. [laughs] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:11
- Mr. Robert E. Lee, sir. [laughs]
- How Fred would say it, you can kill a revolutionary - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- How Fred would say it, you can kill a revolutionary
You know, they're in the room. - Mm-hmm. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
You know, they're in the room. - Mm-hmm.
- You know, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- You know,
[laughter] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:17
[laughter]
I just wanted to know, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
I just wanted to know,
- Just keep serving the people, man. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:04
- Just keep serving the people, man.
You know, for just three or four hours a day, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
You know, for just three or four hours a day,
You know, like my mom would say, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:05
You know, like my mom would say,
Do something for somebody." - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:07
Do something for somebody."
- He didn't really see skin color. - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:30
- He didn't really see skin color.
I think that's the checkpoint - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
I think that's the checkpoint
- The Young Patriots in Chicago - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:31
- The Young Patriots in Chicago
- On December 4, 1972, I ended up turning myself in, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:20
- On December 4, 1972, I ended up turning myself in,
[heartening ambient music] - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:43
[heartening ambient music]
- The entire black community revolted - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- The entire black community revolted
- There's nothing I hate worse than defeat, Bob, - The First Rainbow Coalition 00:06
- There's nothing I hate worse than defeat, Bob,