The First Rainbow Coalition

56m
Documentary
7.5

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.

Cast

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

Crew

Ray Santisteban
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Leah Marino
Editor
Sally Jo Fifer
Executive Producer
Sandie Viquez Pedlow
Executive Producer
Lois Vossen
Executive Producer
Leslie Fields-Cruz
Executive Producer
Susanne Mason
Associate Producer
Angélica Negrón
Original Music Composer
Michael Ehrenzweig
Supervising Producer

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