Fred Hampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fred Hampton. Born. August 3. 0, 1. 94. Summit, Illinois, U. S. Died. December 4, 1.
Chicago, Illinois, U. S. Cause of death. Murder[1]Resting place. Bethel Cemetery. Haynesville, Louisiana, U. S.[2]Ethnicity. African–American. Citizenship. American.
Education. Proviso East High School. Occupation. Activist, revolutionary. Years active. 19. Known for. Deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter Black Panther Party. Political party. Black Panther Party. Partner(s)Deborah Johnson(also known as Akua Njeri)Relatives.
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Fred Hampton, Jr. Fred Hampton (August 3. December 4, 1. 96. American activist and revolutionary,[3] chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. Hampton was murdered while sleeping at his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office, in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in December 1. A civil lawsuit filed in 1.
Dezember 1969 wurde Hampton gemeinsam mit einem zweiten Panthers-Mitglied bei einer von der Staatsanwaltschaft angeordneten Hausdurchsuchung erschossen.
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The background and events of Hampton's murder have been chronicled in several documentary films. Early Life and Youth[edit]Hampton was born on August 3. Summit, Illinois, and grew up in Maywood, a suburb west of the city. His parents had moved north from Louisiana, and both worked at the Argo Starch Company. As a youth, Hampton was gifted both in the classroom and on the athletic field, and strongly desired to play center field for the New York Yankees. He graduated from Proviso East High School with honors in 1. Following his graduation, Hampton enrolled at Triton Junior College in nearby River Grove, Illinois, where he majored in pre- law.
He planned to become more familiar with the legal system, to use it as a defense against police. He and fellow Black Panthers would follow police, watching out for police brutality, and used this knowledge of law as a defense. He also became active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and assumed leadership of the Youth Council of the organization's West Suburban Branch. In his capacity as an NAACP youth organizer, Hampton began to demonstrate his natural leadership abilities; from a community of 2. He worked to get more and better recreational facilities established in the neighborhoods, and to improve educational resources for Maywood's impoverished black community.
Through his involvement with the NAACP, Hampton hoped to achieve social change through nonviolentactivism and community organizing.[4]Chicago[edit]About the same time that Hampton was successfully organizing young African- Americans for the NAACP, the Black Panther Party (BPP) started rising to national prominence. Hampton was quickly attracted to the Black Panthers' approach, which was based on a ten- point program that integrated black self- determination and certain elements of Maoism.
Hampton joined the Party and relocated to downtown Chicago, and in November 1. Party's nascent Illinois chapter—founded by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer Bob Brown in late 1.
Over the next year, Hampton and his associates made a number of significant achievements in Chicago. Perhaps his most important accomplishment was his brokering of a nonaggression pact between Chicago's most powerful street gangs. Emphasizing that racial and ethnic conflict between gangs would only keep its members entrenched in poverty, Hampton strove to forge a class- conscious, multi- racial alliance between the BPP, the Young Patriots Organization, and the Young Lords under the leadership of Jose Cha Cha Jimenez. Fred Hampton met Cha Cha and the Young Lords in the Chicago Lincoln Park Neighborhood, the day after the Young Lords were in the news after they had occupied a police community workshop meeting, held on the second floor hall of the Chicago 1. District Police Station. Later, the Rainbow Coalition was joined nationwide by the Students for a Democratic Society ("SDS"), the Brown Berets, and the Red Guard Party.[5][6] In May 1.
Hampton called a press conference to announce that this "rainbow coalition" had formed. It was a phrase coined by Hampton and made popular over the years by Rev. Jesse Jackson, who eventually appropriated the name in forming his own, unrelated, coalition, Rainbow/PUSH.[7]Hampton's organizing skills, substantial oratorical gifts, and personal charisma allowed him to rise quickly in the Black Panthers. Once he became leader of the Chicago chapter, he organized weekly rallies, worked closely with the BPP's local People's Clinic, taught political education classes every morning at 6am, and launched a project for community supervision of the police. Hampton was also instrumental in the BPP's Free Breakfast Program. When Brown left the Party with Stokely Carmichael in the FBI- fomented SNCC/Panther split, Hampton assumed chairmanship of the Illinois state BPP, automatically making him a national BPP deputy chairman.
As the Panther leadership across the country began to be decimated by the impact of the FBI's COINTELPRO, Hampton's prominence in the national hierarchy increased rapidly and dramatically. Eventually, Hampton was in line to be appointed to the Party's Central Committee's Chief of Staff. He would have achieved this position had it not been for his assassination on the morning of December 4, 1.
FBI Investigation[edit]While Hampton impressed many of the people with whom he came into contact as an effective leader and talented communicator, those very qualities marked him as a major threat in the eyes of the FBI. It began keeping close tabs on his activities. Subsequent investigations have shown that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was determined to prevent the formation of a cohesive Black movement in the United States. Hoover saw the Panthers,Young Patriots,Young Lords and similar radical coalitions forged by Hampton in Chicago, as a frightening steppingstone toward the creation of just such a revolutionary body that could, in its strength, cause a radical change in the U.
S. government.[8][citation needed] The FBI opened a file on Hampton in 1. In 1. 96. 8, Hampton's mother's phone was tapped in February 1. Hampton was placed on the Bureau's "Agitator Index" as a "key militant leader" by May.[5] In late 1. Racial Matters squad of the FBI's Chicago field office brought in an individual named William O'Neal, who had recently been arrested twice, for interstate car theft and impersonating a federal officer.
In exchange for having his felony charges dropped and a monthly stipend, O'Neal apparently agreed to infiltrate the BPP as a counterintelligence operative.[9] He joined the Party and quickly rose in the organization, becoming Director of Chapter security and Hampton's bodyguard.[8] In 1. FBI special agent in San Francisco wrote Hoover that the agent's investigation of the BPP revealed that in his city, at least, the Panthers were primarily feeding breakfast to children. Hoover fired back a memo implying the career ambitions of the agent were directly related to his supplying evidence to support Hoover's view that the BPP was "a violence- prone organization seeking to overthrow the Government by revolutionary means".[1. By means of anonymous letters, the FBI sowed distrust and eventually instigated a split between the Panthers and the Rangers, with O'Neal himself instigating an armed clash between the two on April 2, 1.
The Panthers became effectively isolated from their power base in the ghetto, so the FBI went to work to undermine its ties with other radical organizations. O'Neal was instructed to "create a rift" between the Party and SDS, whose Chicago headquarters was only blocks from that of the Panthers.
The Bureau released a batch of racist cartoons in the Panthers' name,[citation needed] aimed at alienating white activists, and launched a disinformation program to forestall the realization of the Rainbow Coalition but nevertheless it was formed with an alliance of the Young Patriots and Young Lords. In repeated directives, Hoover demanded that the COINTELPRO personnel investigate the Rainbow Coalition and "destroy what the [BPP] stands for" and "eradicate its 'serve the people' programs".[1.
Documents secured by Senate investigators in the early 1. FBI actively encouraged violence between the Panthers and other radical groups, which provoked multiple murders in cities throughout the country.[1. On May 2. 6, 1. 96. Hampton was successfully prosecuted in a case related to a theft in 1. Good Humor Bars in Maywood.
He was sentenced to two to five years but managed to obtain an appeal bond, and was released in August.[citation needed] On July 1. Chicago Police Department, which left one BPP member mortally wounded and six others arrested on serious charges. In early October, Hampton and his girlfriend, Deborah Johnson (now known as Akua Njeri), pregnant with their first child (Fred Hampton, Jr.), rented a four- and- a- half room apartment on 2. West Monroe Street to be closer to BPP headquarters. O'Neal reported to his superiors that much of the Panthers' "provocative" stockpile of arms was being stored there and drew them a map of the layout of the apartment.[8] In early November, Hampton traveled to California on a speaking engagement to the UCLA Law Students Association. While there, he met with the remaining BPP national hierarchy, who appointed him to the Party's Central Committee. Shortly thereafter, he was to assume the position of Chief of Staff and major spokesman.[citation needed]1.
Raid and Assassination[edit]"We expected about twenty Panthers to be in the apartment when the police raided the place. Only two of those black niggers were killed, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark."— FBI Special Agent Gregg York [1. Bed that Hampton was initially shot in during the raid, with large amount of blood on mattress and numerous bullet holes in the walls. Fred Hampton was quickly moving up the ranks in the Black Panther Party, and his talent as a political organizer was described as remarkable.[5][6] In 1.