The First Rainbow Coalition

October. 24,2019      
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Fred Hampton as  Self (archival footage)
Bobby Rush as  Self (archival footage)

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Reviews

Console
2019/10/24

best movie i've ever seen.

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CommentsXp
2019/10/25

Best movie ever!

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FirstWitch
2019/10/26

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Nayan Gough
2019/10/27

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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