Rainbow Coalition - Definition

The Rainbow Coalition refers to at least three groups.

• second coalition of the Government of the 27th Dáil in Ireland
• Rainbow Coalition was an social, racial and economic justice organization formed by Jesse Jackson which later merged with Push to become the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
• An alliance announced June 7, 1969, in the Black Panther newspaper, made up of the Panthers, the Young Patriots Organization (a street gang of white youths that had turned political) and the Young Lords Organization, whom they characterized as Puerto Rican revolutionaries. [1] (http://netdial.caribe.net/~dfreedma/beginnin.htm)