[Ads-l] Antedating of "Rainbow Coalition" (Specific Jesse Jackson Usage)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Rainbow Coalition (OED 1983)

1971 Jesse Jackson in Chicago Daily Defender (Big Weekend Edition) 16 Jan. 11 (ProQuest)

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] made the cause of garbage men the opening wedge of a poor people's crusade mobilizing a rainbow coalition of black, brown red, and poor whites against the ongoing conspiracy of economic power in the nation.

Fred Shapiro

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org