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The (Original) Rainbow Coalition

January 8, 2012 By James Tracy 4 Comments Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: #history, #organizing, #race

Bobby Lee moved to Chicago in the late 1960s as a VISTA volunteer, and joined the Black Panther Party. He was instrumental in bringing together the first Rainbow Coalition—a teaming of the Puerto Rican Young Lords and the white Young Patriots Organization. This is a short excerpt of a longer interview with Lee, for an […]

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