Search results
Aug 30, 2020 · Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panther Party, delivered this speech at Northern Illinois University in 1969. He argued that the struggle against racism was a class struggle against capitalism and that the Party had to arm itself to fight the oppressors.
- Fred Hampton
Aug 30, 2020 · Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, delivered a speech in 1969 on how to empower the people through observation and participation. He shared examples of how the Panthers dealt with police brutality, corruption and racism in the community.
- Fred Hampton
Speech by Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the State of Illinois Black Panther Party on revolution and racism.
Sep 8, 2021 · “So we say—we always say in the Black Panther Party that they can do anything they want to to us. We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll...
- 30 sec
- 43.5K
- Activist News Network
- Early life
- Leadership
- Crime
- Controversy
- Records
Fred Hampton was born on August 30, 1948 in suburban Illinois. He was noticeably gifted in academics and athletics. He wanted to play for the New York Yankees when he was done with school but ended up studying pre-law at Triton Junior College. Hampton was inspired to study law to use it as a defense against police and their brutality. Around this t...
While he was organizing youth on behalf of the NAACP, the Black Panther Party was gaining national popularity. The Party's Ten-Point Program that integrated black self-determination and elements of Maoism inspired Hampton to join and move to downtown Chicago. Hamptons leadership abilities were apparent there. He brokered a nonaggression pact betwee...
On the evening of December 3, 1969, ONeal slipped a powerful sleeping drug into Hamptons drink then left. Officers were dispatched to raid his apartment. They stormed in and opened fire, killing Mark Clark, acting as his security guard. Then they opened fire on Hamptons bedroom where he laid unconscious from the drug. Despite the intense round of f...
A short time later, there was a break-in at a FBI field office in Pennsylvania where the COINTELPRO documents were discovered. The cache of documents included a floorplan of Hamptons apartment and an outline of the deal to conceal the FBIs role in the assassination of Hampton. In 1970, the survivors and relatives of Hampton sued the federal and loc...
Records at the National Archives relating to Fred Hampton include the FBI and Department of Justice case files investigating his death, and US District Court files relating to the subsequent civil suit.
Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panther Party, delivered this speech in 1969 to defend the party's programs and goals against the repression of the US government. He praised Huey Newton, the party's minister of defense, and explained how the party taught the people through practice and not just theory.
Let me say in the spirit of liberation—I’ve been gone for a little while, at least my body’s been gone for a little while. But I’m back now and I believe that I’m back to stay. I believe that I’m going to do my job and I believe that I was born not to die in a car wreck; I don’t believe that I’m going to die in a car wreck.
