The First Rainbow Coalition

2019 NR 56m 7.1

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...

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.

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Info about The First Rainbow Coalition

Studio(s): Nantes Media, LLC, ITVS

Originally Released: United States on Oct 24, 2019

Production Country: United States

Genres: Documentary