The Little will screen The First Rainbow Coalition (Ray Santisteban, U.S. 2019, 56 min.) followed by a Panel Discussion with Robert K. Hoggard, and Elisa Dejesus, moderated by Kit Miller as part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up series.

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form a multi-ethnic coalition with the Young Lords Organization and the Young Patriots. Banding together in one of the most segregated cities in post-war America, the Rainbow Coalition changed the face of 1960s Chicago politics and created an organizing model for future activists and politicians.

[source: Little Theatre calendar, 2019-Nov-18]