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What Daley did is not to challenge that on any leve

The First Rainbow Coalition

What Daley did is not to challenge that on any leve, and that was very important for him...

The First Rainbow Coalition • 2019

What Daley did is not to challenge that on any leve, and that was very important for him politically because so much of his base
were extremely resistant to the idea of blacks moving
into their neighborhoods, and Daley served their interests. [ominous music] - Now is the time to get rid of the slums and ghettos of Chicago. Now is the time. We must realize that
there must be alliances now between Negroes and
white people of good will to get rid of poverty that
engulfs so much of our nation

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What Daley did is not to challenge that on any leve,

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and that was very important for him politically

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because so much of his base were extremely resistant

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to the idea of blacks moving into their neighborhoods,

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and Daley served their interests.

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[ominous music]

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- Now is the time

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to get rid of the slums and ghettos of Chicago.

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Now is the time.

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We must realize that there must be alliances now

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between Negroes and white people of good will

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to get rid of poverty that engulfs so much of our nation.

Duration

41 seconds

Views

36

Timestamp in Movie

00:09:15

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.