Rainbow Coalition facts
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Jesse Jackson founded the National Rainbow Coalition in 1986 - which is a national social justice organization.
The two most notable organizations that Jackson formed were the People United to Save Humanity (PUSH) (1971) and the Rainbow Coalition (1984). Both organizations advocated for liberal causes, such as more government housing, government funded job training, and the hiring of more minorities in the corporate world. The two organizations were merged in 1996 to form the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
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The Patriot Party, a socialist party in the 1960s, organized poor whites and worked closely with the Black Panthers and the Young Lords as a member of the Rainbow Coalition until being destroyed by the FBI as part of COINTELPRO
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The Original Rainbow Coalition: Multi-Racial Poor People's Organizing in Chicago and Beyond
