Documentary
The First Rainbow Coalition
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.
Directed by Ray Santisteban, Sally Jo Fifer, Sandie Viquez Pedlow
75
User score
4 votes
Status
Released
Released
October 24, 2019
Runtime
56m
Language
English
