Rainbow Coalition formed (Chicago, 1969)

CTL-E-2892 · Event · other · 1969

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The original Rainbow Coalition is formed in Chicago in 1969, co-led by the Young Lords Organization and the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party with the Young Patriots — a multiracial working-class alliance around housing, poverty, police brutality, and racial and economic inequality.

Relationships

• Chicago Freedom Movement (1966) — related to
  The 1969 Rainbow Coalition and the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement were successive Chicago multiracial organizing efforts.
• Lincoln Park — held at
  The Rainbow Coalition was formed in Chicago, organized out of Lincoln Park and Uptown meeting spaces.

Referenced by

• Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party — organized → this record
• Young Lords Organization — organized → this record

Sources

• Congressional Record — Honoring José "Cha Cha" Jiménez (Vol. 171, H308) (primary source)
• Oxygen — "What Was The Rainbow Coalition, As Seen In 'Judas And The Black Messiah?'"

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