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Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Fredrick Allen Hampton 1948-1969
Fred Hampton testifies at a meeting on the death of two men in 1969.
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'He's a symbol of resistance': the true story of 'Black Messiah' Fred Hampton G Thu 11 Feb 2021 07.28 GMT Last modified on Thu 11 Feb 2021 07.29 GMT
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Demonstrators in Boston in 1970 protested the killing of Fred Hampton.
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’: What to Know About the HBO Max Film The Shaka King movie dramatizes the life and death of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Here’s a guide to the people and the issues of the day. NYT Feb. 12, 2021 12:18 p.m. ET
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Judas and the Black Messiah Official Trailer 2020
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH Official Trailer Video Warher Bros. Pictures 7 August 2020 Warner Bros. Pictures Watch the trailer for Judas and the Black Messiah, a movie about the betrayal and assassination of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party. Starring Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield. Only in theaters 2021. “You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution." (...)
“Judas and the Black Messiah” is directed by Shaka King, marking his studio feature film directorial debut.
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Fredrick Allen Hampton 1948-1969
black activist and revolutionary socialist
He came to prominence in Chicago as chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP.
In this capacity, he founded the Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots, and the Young Lords, and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton - 11 February 2021
Born in 1948, Frederick Hampton was community justice-oriented from an early age.
In elementary school, he was the captain of the Patrol Boys.
In high school, he staged walkouts, protesting against racism, successfully advocated for the hiring of more black teachers and administrators and was recruited by NAACP for their suburban youth division.
He continued his advocacy after his graduation into the summer of 1966 where he accompanied black children via bus to an unsegregated neighborhood where they could swim;
the following year, he demonstrated for their own swimming pool, closer to the neighborhood.
His efforts raised the money for the aquatic center but also resulted in his placement on the FBI’s Key Agitator List.
He wouldn’t join the Black Panther party until the year after, in 1968.
Atop his proven organizing success, Hampton was a passionate orator.
Jeffrey Haas, co-founder of the People’s Law Office and author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, detailed how Hampton mastered his childhood speech impediment to turn his voice into an asset.
“[He] went to church with his parents and learned the cadence of the ministers at the churches,” he told the Guardian.
“[He] also memorized the speeches of Dr King and Malcolm X, so that it wasn’t just an accident that his speeches had a really powerful effect, you know?
(...)
Despite his incarceration for robbery (a spurious charge and conviction Haas believes involved collusion between the FBI and the Chicago district attorney), Hampton was still on the rise and had discussed joining the national ranks of the Black Panthers.
“In the fall of 1969, Fred had gone out to the west coast and he was being considered for a position of national leadership in the Panther party,” Haas said.
Tragically, before he could do so, a 14-man police squad, operating with O’Neal’s map, equivocated testimony and an illegal search warrant, invaded Hampton’s apartment on 4 December 1969, at the behest of the Chicago district attorney, Edward Hanrahan.
The officers fired into the apartment, killing Mark Clark, and continued firing, injuring several members of the party who had been unarmed.
Hampton was also unarmed, having been drugged with a barbiturate by O’Neal the night prior, and did not wake during the gunfire.
After firing about 100 shots into the apartment, the officers entered and fired two fatal shots into Hampton.
“Almost everybody in Chicago has some sort of memory, even if it’s what their parents told them, how they remember that day.
Because it really stood out in Chicago,” states Haas.
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deputy chairman of the Illinois Black Panther party before his killing in 1969.
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