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The Rainbow Coalition was a coalition, active in the late 1960's and early 1970s, pioneered by Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots and the Puerto Rican founder of the Young Lords, José "Cha-Cha" Jiménez. It later expanded to include various radical socialist groups. The coalition also included various gangs which Fred Hampton, Rising Up Angry, the Young Patriots Organization and the Young Lords had brokered treaties between. Such treaties were based on the idea that the only ones to benefit from poor youths fighting each other in gang wars was the Daley Machine and the American ruling class.
Organisations in the Rainbow Coalition
- Black Panther Party,
- Brown Berets,
- I Wor Kuen and their successors the Red Guard Party,
- White Panther Party,
- Gray Panthers,
- Youth International Party,
- The Patriot Party,
- Young Patriots Organization,
- American Indian Movement,
- Students for a Democratic Society,
- Gay Liberation Front,
- Symbionese Liberation Army,
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
- Weather Underground and
- Young Lords
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