Presented by VTIFF & Vermont PBS
Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing
Directed by Ray Santisteban
54 mins | Documentary
Followed by Q&A with Denis Mueller*, moderated by Eric Ford, Director of Programming at Vermont PBS
Broadcast date: Jan 27, 2020
In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form 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.
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* Denis Mueller has been a documentary filmmaker for 35 years. His films include The FBI’s War on Black America, Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train, John Edgar Hoover and the American Inquisitions, Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, the Road is All and his last film made with long time colleague Deb Ellis, Peace Has No Borders. His newest film Russell Banks: Even as I Continue tells the story of this acclaimed writer whose exploration of toxic masculinity and race and class has made him one of the great American writers of the 20th Century. Denis received his Ph.D. in American Studies in 2007 from Bowling Green State University. He is a teacher, a mentor and has had a lifelong interest in the abuse of power. Denis is from Chicago where he was born and raised and now lives in Burlington.