The First Rainbow Coalition

Name: The First Rainbow Coalition
Director: Ray Santisteban
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-10-24
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Fred Hampton, Bobby Lee, Bobby Rush

2019 · 56 min · ★ 7.6 · Documentary

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

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Fred Hampton Self (archive footage)
Bobby Lee Self (archive footage)
Bobby Rush Self (archive footage)

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