Unlikely Allies | First Rainbow Coalition
Clip: Season 21 Episode 7 | 2m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
When Black, Latinx and Southern white activists came together to form unlikely coalition.
In this excerpt from The First Rainbow Coalition, be a fly on the wall at a first meeting in Chicago in the 1960s, between three wholly different activist groups -- Black Panthers, led by the charismatic Bobby Lee, Latinx group the Young Lords Organization, and the Southern whites of the Young Patriots -- all surprised to discover the common ground, and common foes, they share.
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Unlikely Allies | First Rainbow Coalition
Clip: Season 21 Episode 7 | 2m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
In this excerpt from The First Rainbow Coalition, be a fly on the wall at a first meeting in Chicago in the 1960s, between three wholly different activist groups -- Black Panthers, led by the charismatic Bobby Lee, Latinx group the Young Lords Organization, and the Southern whites of the Young Patriots -- all surprised to discover the common ground, and common foes, they share.
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Trailer | The First Rainbow Coalition
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Preview: S21 Ep7 | 30s | Across lines of race and ethnicity, alliances formed among Chicago activists in the '60s. (30s)
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