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  Fred Hampton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Fred Hampton (1948 – December 4, 1969) was a fl American activist.
Hampton was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Maywood, a suburb to the west of the city.
Hampton was in line to be appointed to the Party's Central Committee's Chief of Staff was it not for his untimely death on the night of December 4, 1969.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/f/fr/fred_hampton.html   (2030 words)

  
 Fred Hampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was a radical African American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP).
Hampton was born on August 30, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Maywood, a suburb to the west of the city.
Hampton was quickly attracted to the Black Panthers' approach, which was based on a ten-point program of a mix of fl self-determination and certain elements of Maoism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Hampton   (2597 words)

  
 The Black Commentator - Fred Hampton and Mark Clark - Issue 67
Hampton was killed in a 1969 raid on the headquarters of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther party, in what was almost certainly a planned assassination orchestrated by Federal agents and city leaders, who feared that Hampton's influence could lead to an all-out armed uprising by the city's most disenfranchised residents.
Hampton was born in 1948 in Chicago, and grew up in Maywood, a suburb just to the west of the city.
Hampton was initially convicted and sentenced to two to five years in prison before the decision was overturned.
www.blackcommentator.com /67/67_hampton.html   (1712 words)

  
 Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton was born in Chicago in 1948 and grew up in Maywood, a suburb of the city.
Hampton, one of the most promising leaders of the Black Panther Party - particularly dangerous because of his opposition to violent acts or rhetoric and his success in community organizing - was killed in bed, perhaps drugged.
Fred Hampton and Mark dark died in a hail of gunfire, and three others were wounded, when police burst into their apartment at 4:00 a.m.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhamptonF.htm   (2784 words)

  
 Fred Hampton: Martyr
Fred Hampton was a high school student and a promising leader when he joined the Black Panther Party at the age of 19.
Hampton had the charisma to excite crowds during rallies, he was suppose to be appointed to the Party's Central Committee.
Fred Hampton's murder has never been vindicated, other than through speaking engagements, accusations of government wrong-doing on the web, and literature published on the subject.
www.thetalkingdrum.com /fred.html   (1121 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Fred and eight other Panthers, including his pregnant fiancee, were set up by an informant and ambushed in their residence.
Fred Hampton was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1948.
As Hampton became prominent in the fl radical movement, the FBI began to keep close tabs on Hampton and the Black Panther party.
www.georgetown.edu /users/acg7/hampton.html   (377 words)

  
 Hampton Hall
Fred’s earlier career experience includes a four-year commitment as a Naval Intelligence Officer in the US Navy, where he lived in Spain and was assigned to a Reconnaissance Squadron and traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East.
One of Fred’s greatest accomplishments and joys in his life are his two daughters Brooke and Haley, who love going to the beach and traveling around the Lowcountry.
Fred has been with Hampton Hall since its inception and has watched the development evolve into an exceptional community.
www.hamptonhallsc.com /NewtonBio.aspx   (167 words)

  
 Fred Hampton - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Fred was spreading the message throughout the city, constantly speaking at colleges and high schools and meeting with a wide range of leaders and organizations.
Fred and the Panthers continued to actively organize against police brutality and for community control of the police during this period, and called upon the community to arm and defend itself against police violence.
Fred’s body was dragged from the bloodstained bed to the hallway floor, to be displayed as the raiders trophy, while the seven survivors were physically abused, subjected to threats and racial epithets, and then jailed on charges of attempted murder.
www.peopleslawoffice.com /Hampton-history.htm   (3628 words)

  
 Chairman Fred Hampton Jr Speaks at Brown Beret's Youth and Power : Indybay
Chairman Fred is the son of Fred Hampton Sr.
Hampton had reached out and brought to the table various Black and Latino organizations and gangs along with the white Patriots and folks from the Native American movement to organize and combat various political and economic oppressive conditions impacting People of color and poor communities.
Hampton was very adamant about the importance for the Black community to be in support and alongside those who are involved in the immigration struggle.
www.indybay.org /newsitems/2006/04/20/18166051.php   (834 words)

  
 About Fred Hampton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Before changing fims, Fred was an Estates Director, a member of The Circle of Distinction, and The Leading Edge Society, recognizing an elite group of agents for their high sales volume.
Fred received his education from a local private college where he received a BA and MBA.
A native of Southern California, Fred was born in Orange County and has resided in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles for the past twenty-one years.
www.fredhampton.com /aboutme.htm   (292 words)

  
 Fred Hampton Jr. continues father’s legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Hampton, chairman of the Prisoners of Conscious Committee, spoke passionately to the students, community leaders and curious guests that attended the discussion, “Defending the Legacy of the Black Panther Party and the Continuing Counterinsurgency,” at the University of Pittsburgh Apr. 3.
Hampton also encouraged students in attendance to use their education in ways that will benefit the Black community.
Hampton reminded people to speak in what he called “war terms” because he believes Blacks are in a war for survival in America.
www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/printer_2574.shtml   (509 words)

  
 Fred Hampton, Jr.
The judge refused to allow the name "Fred Hampton" to be used in court.
Fred Hampton, Jr inherited his father's gift for politics as well as his ability to frighten the government with his effectiveness in organizing.
The "Free Fred Hampton, Jr." site seems to be the only comprehensive internet source providing information about his run-ins with the legal system.
www.providence.edu /afro/students/panther/hamptonjr.html   (738 words)

  
 Chicago Defender / Local
Hampton, leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party, and partner Mark Clark were killed by Chicago police officers in an early morning raid Dec. 4, 1969 at Hampton's 2337 W. Monroe St. apartment.
The ordinance renaming the street for Hampton was dropped from last week's City Council agenda amid controversy sparked by the police union, but is expected to spark a debate on the council floor at the March 29 meeting.
Hampton Jr., chairman of the Prisoners of Consciousness Committee, said he also is fighting an ongoing war on Black movements and leadership.
www.chicagodefender.com /page/local.cfm?ArticleID=4272   (762 words)

  
 The Black Commentator - I remember Fred - A Brilliant Leader Struck Down in His Youth - Issue 117
December 4, 2004 marked the 35th anniversary of the police executions of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, in Chicago.
 Chairman Fred was murdered by the FBI and Chicago Police Department in the pre-dawn hours of December 4, 1969.  He was just 21 years old.  Fred’s family and comrades mourned him for a little while and have celebrated his life of struggle, service, intensity and sacrifice ever since.
Fred assumed a lead role in organizing the party’s Breakfast for Children program, in which we solicited donations of food and facilities and provided or recruited the labor to serve free hot breakfasts to children on the way to school in some of the
www.blackcommentator.com /117/117_fred_hampton.html   (151 words)

  
 sfbg.com
Filmmaker-writer Mike Gray was making a documentary about Hampton, and during 1969 he spent considerable time filming the quick-witted, camera-friendly young man. The project was still a work in progress when Chicago police suddenly called it a wrap and gave The Murder of Fred Hampton its name.
Hampton's short life has passed into the netherworld of memory, but his murder by criminal conspiracy has an echo today, as the euphemistically named coalition forces ravish Iraq.
Recently, while speaking to a class of college sophomores, I referred to the Panthers, and a young woman said, "Oh, yeah, with the afros and fists in the air." I began to correct her – I was there, after all, and knew her description added nothing but misinformation.
www.sfbg.com /37/27/art_loaded.html   (2315 words)

  
 The Militant - April 24, 2006 -- Chicago cops oppose ‘Fred Hampton’ street   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
A leader of the Black Panther Party, Hampton was brutally slain by Chicago cops on Dec. 4, 1969.
A federal grand jury, despite its clear bias against Hampton and the Panthers, admitted in May 1970 that at least 82 shots were fired into the Monroe residence and that only one was “apparently” fired by someone inside.
An examination of Hampton’s body revealed a high dose of a sleeping drug, indicating that he had been drugged before the police raid.
www.themilitant.com /2006/7016/701651.html   (703 words)

  
 Chicago Defender / Editorial
Fred Hampton’s murder is the most well-documented case of a political assassination by the U.S. government of a U.S. citizen that may well exist.
In fact, as many recognize the killing of Fred Hampton led not only to the demise of the political career of Hanrahan, Mayor Richard J. Daley’s heir apparent, but also to the formation of the Black coalition which ultimately resulted in the election of Harold Washington as mayor.
Jeffrey Haas represented the Hampton family in the civil suit against the city and county for the wrongful death of Fred Hampton.
www.chicagodefender.com /page/editorial.cfm?ArticleID=4988   (573 words)

  
 People's Weekly World - Drive to rename Chicago street for Fred Hampton
Today, 35 years after the police and FBI raid that resulted in the shooting deaths of Hampton and co-worker Mark Clark as they were sleeping in their beds, Hampton’s legacy still lives on.
Hampton is remembered for promoting a multiracial, non-aggression pact between the city’s gangs, and for taking a class approach to the fight against racism.
Hampton continued: “Those that don’t admit to that are those that don’t want to get involved in a revolution, because they know as long as they’re dealing with a race thing, they’ll never be involved in a revolution.”
www.pww.org /index.php/article/articleview/8723/1/312   (616 words)

  
 Fred Hampton Streetz Party on the march
Fred Hampton, Jr., chairperson of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) and son of the martyred Chicago Black Panther Party (BPP) leader, organized this march of West Side youth to celebrate the birthday of his father and keep the memory of the BPP’s revolutionary legacy alive.
With the BPP’s national leadership under relentless attack by the capitalist state’s repressive agencies, and with Hampton’s promotion to the Central Committee’s chief of staff pending in early 1970, the cops felt that the timing for their planned Gestapo-style raid on the Panther house at 2337 W. Monroe was perfect.
The Fred Hampton Streetz Party march and rally was a powerful blow against the CPD’s efforts to bury the legacy of the BPP and the memory of its martyred chairperson, Fred Hampton.
www.workers.org /2006/us/hampton-0921   (1356 words)

  
 The Lawyer | Freedom Lawyers of America
Hampton's supporters say that police, on Dec. 4, 1969, executed Hampton and another man in a pre-dawn raid at 2337 W. Monroe, an apartment that served as the local headquarters of the Black Panthers.
Madeline Haithcock (2nd) and Fred Hampton's brother have made the case for renaming a West Side street after the slain Black Panther leader by arguing that "Off the pigs" was just a figure of speech used by the Panthers during the turbulent 1960s.
Fred Hampton Jr., who was born shortly after his father's death, served nine years in prison for firebombing a Korean-owned store and now is chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, which lobbies for victims of injustice.
thelawyer.info /blog/2006/03/up-to-date-stuff-on-fred-hampton.html   (9043 words)

  
 Street name: Fiasco or tribute? (CHICAGO PREPARES FOR'FRED HAMPTON WAY')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Haithcock sponsored the ordinance at the behest of Hampton's son, Fred Hampton Jr., a political activist who was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 1993 for the firebombing of two Korean-owned stores in Englewood.
According to Rush, Hampton lived and died fighting racism and police brutality on behalf of the poor, but Hampton's militant rhetoric, which seemed to condone the killing of police officers, has turned a routine street naming into a bitter political battle over the past.
Hampton's son, who is now a community activist, was born two weeks after he was killed.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1587634/posts   (3199 words)

  
 Fred Hampton and Mark Clark: Attempted Murder Charges Eyed in Panthers Gun Fight RONALD KOZIOL & EDWARD LEE  / ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Two Panther leaders, including Fred Hampton, 21, state party chairman, were shot and killed in the 20-minute exchange of gunfire.
the Panthers announced they wanted to surrender Hampton's body was found in a rear bedroom Police said a loaded.45 pistol was in his hand and a shotgun by his side.
The fact of the matter is that Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered in their sleep.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/Fred-Hampton-Murdered5dec69.htm   (767 words)

  
 The Battle for Fred Hampton Way -- In These Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Madeline Haithcock proposed to name one city block in honor of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther leader who died on the block in an infamous 1969 police raid.
She was acting on a request from Fred Hampton Jr., who was born just three weeks after his mother survived the pre-dawn assault on the Panther apartment.
Hampton and Mark Clark, a Panther from Peoria, were killed in the assault and several others were injured.
www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/2561   (1313 words)

  
 Fred Hampton, Sr.
FBI special agents sent a memo to J. Edgar Hoover stating that "a positive course of action (was) being effected under the counterintelligence program." (quoted information from Shane Smith's Fred Hampton Page)
As explained by this resource, there are many inconsistencies in the accounts of what really happened when Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered.
They are following the statement that Fred once said, "You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill a revolution!" The son of Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton, Jr.
www.providence.edu /afro/students/panther/hamptonsr.html   (1071 words)

  
 FredHamptonReborn
Sleeping beside him was his young wife, Deborah, and sleeping within her, under her heart, was a Black baby boy, who was swimming in a salty sea, inches away from the father that his eyes would never see, alive.
Fred was dosed with secobarbitol, a barbituate, laced into his soda by Panther traitor, William O'Neal.
Some 3 weeks later, Fred's wife would give birth to their son, who would come to be known as Fred Hampton, Jr., a young man who, like his martyred father, has a deep and abiding love for his people, and is an energetic organizer and gifted speaker.
www.prisonradio.org /FredHamptonRebornMumia.htm   (794 words)

  
 publish.nyc.indymedia.org | Chicago's 'Finest' Try to Kill Fred Hampton... Again
Evidently ignorant that Chicago's 'Finest' killed Hampton and not the reverse, FOP President Mark Donahue responded to the news with the stupidity and anger befitting his position.
Hampton's charisma and his revolutionary politics led the FBI to begin spying on him prior to his 20th birthday.
In other words, "Fred Hampton Way" will only become a reality if people compel the Alderwoman Haithcock to stand with the Fred Hampton and against the racist Pigs who killed him.
nyc.indymedia.org /en/2006/03/65948.html   (534 words)

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