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The First Rainbow Coalition: Intercommunity Alliances Past & Present
Special Film Screening of the First Rainbow Coalition & Book Release Party for the 10th Anniversary Edition of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban, Race Rebels & Black Power. Online screening, 1:30 intergenerational panel discussion at 2:30 (Viewing link sent out the day before the event.)
Tickets are free. A donation to support the San Francisco Bayview Newspaper will be kindly accepted online or at the event. You can donate through this link: https://sfbayview.com/donate.
Join us for a post screening conversation about inter-sectional alliances past and present with Rainbow Coalition veterans Ericka Huggins (Black Panther Party), Hy Thurman (Young Patriots Organization) and a new generation of activists: Thandiwe Abdullah, Black Lives Matter LA, Sammie Ablaza Wills (Asians 4 Black Lives), and Nick De Renzi (Critical Resistance, Oakland).
In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including the Latino group the Young Lords Organization and the working-class young southern whites of the Young Patriots. These disparate groups banded together in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America to confront issues such as police brutality and substandard housing, calling themselves the Rainbow Coalition. The First Rainbow Coalition tells the movements story through rare archival footage and interviews with former coalition members in the present-day.
First published in 2011, Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing by Amy Sonnie & James Tracy, was one of the first books to study the First Rainbow Coalition and similar political projects in New York and Philadelphia. This summer, Melville House Publishing will issue a revised and expanded edition featuring a new interview with Hy Thurman, co-founder of the Young Patriots Organization.
This event made possible by the Firelight Media Impact Fund. Co-sponsored by the School of Cinema at SF State University and the Labor and Community Studies Department of City College of San Francisco.
The First Rainbow Coalition documentary was supported by: ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting, Black Public Media, Independent Lens, CPB, NALAC, Firelight Media, The Phogg Foundation and additional supporters.
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LocationCinema Department, SF State Univeristy
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