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When I was young, I did everything

The First Rainbow Coalition

When I was young, I did everything all the other gang members did and I would get into a...

The First Rainbow Coalition • 2019

When I was young, I did everything all the other gang members did and I would get into a lot of trouble... a rough kid. [suspenseful ambient music] ♪ ♪ I was in the house of correction, in the hole. Martin Luther King gets killed and the rioters are coming into the jail en masse. ♪ ♪ And at the same time, I'm hearing about the Black Panther Party on the loudspeaker on the radio. - We're gonna defend ourselves rightfully with guns and bullets! - I said that's what we need to do, like the Black Panthers,
in the Puerto Rican community

Full Transcript

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- When I was young, I did everything

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all the other gang members did

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and I would get into a lot of trouble...

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a rough kid.

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[suspenseful ambient music]

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♪ ♪

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I was in the house of correction, in the hole.

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Martin Luther King gets killed

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and the rioters are coming into the jail en masse.

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♪ ♪

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And at the same time,

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I'm hearing about the Black Panther Party

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on the loudspeaker on the radio.

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- We're gonna defend ourselves rightfully

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with guns and bullets!

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- I said that's what we need to do,

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like the Black Panthers, in the Puerto Rican community.

Duration

45 seconds

Views

43

Timestamp in Movie

00:01:36

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.