We have to start making mistakes, and you learn through making mistakes. Free Fred! At around 5 a.m. on December 4, 1969, 14 police officers raided Hampton… Hampton was also instrumental in the establishment of a free medical clinic, and other programs accessible to poor African Americans. We gon’ even have to do more than learn.
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 infig… We got to start getting out there with the people, and a lot of times we think we’re better than the people. Exactly 48 years ago, Black Panthers Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, were shot to death by Chicago police. Hampton considered it his mission to create a better environment for the development of young African Americans.
We know they want us.But we still said that even though we could be, in a sense, if once this system goes, on the mountaintop, we in the Black Panther Party, because of our dedication to understanding what’s in the valley, knowing that there’s people in the valley, knowing that we originally came from the valley, knowing that our plight is the same plight as the people in the valley, knowing that our enemy is on the mountaintop, our friends is in the valley, we say that even though it’s nice to be on the mountaintop, we going back to the valley.I be in the offices every day. We got to get together and learn where it’s at. Okay, we gon’ say it when we going out. From a community of 27,000, he was able to muster a youth group 500-members strong, an impressive size even for a constituency twice as large. We’re not a racist organization because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is a by-product of capitalism.Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re gon’ have to put it back in the hands of the people.Everybody in the state of Illinois is gon’ have to be involved, or even around, the revolution, cuz we gon’ have one. Free Fred!
Free Fred! In 1969, several BPP members and police officers were either injured or killed in shootouts and over one hundred local members of the BPP were arrested.During an early morning police raid of the BPP headquarters at 2337 W. Monroe Street on December 4, 1969, twelve officers opened fire, killing the 21 year old Hampton and Panther leader Mark Clark. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. Then somebody might believe it and you might, you know, end up in, what they call it, revolutionary happy hunting grounds. Socialism is the people! The vision is to bring together history, literature, and art under one cyber-umbrella, to make Black/Afrikan historical, literary, and artistic achievements universally accessible. What do we have to do for society to change?Kentake Page, founded by Meserette Kentake, is a Pan-Afrikan Black history blog that celebrates the diversity of the Afrikan historical experience both on the continent and in the diaspora. I’m the Deputy Chairman of the State of Illinois Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton.
Hampton joined the Black Panther Party and relocated to downtown Chicago, where he launched the party’s Illinois chapter in November of 1968.During his brief BPP tenure, Hampton formed a “Rainbow Coalition” which included Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers, a street gang and the National Young Lords, a Puerto Rican organization.
We gon’ start to say “Free Fred.” Don’t that sound nice? What about human life? Free Fred!
He worked to get more and better recreational facilities established in the neighborhoods, and to improve educational resources for Maywood’s African American community.At about the same time that Hampton was successfully organizing young African Americans for the NAACP, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense started rising to national prominence. You’ve got to make a distinction. Say it when you going out. And we said that we would work with anybody, form coalitions with anybody, that has revolution on their mind. 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.
His leadership helped create a program that provided free breakfasts for schoolchildren, a program the Panthers had initiated in several cities. Y’all come down and help feed children in the morning. Everybody want keep the peace.
All Right Reserved. What we’re saying is that there are white people, in the mother country, that are for the same types of things that we are for – stimulating revolution in the mother country.
However, to civic leaders in Chicago, the FBI, and others in the system, he was a dangerous revolutionary leader.Hampton was born on August 30, 1948 and raised in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Illinois.
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This website uses cookies to improve your experience. By the tender age of 20, Hampton had become a respected community leader among Chicago’s black population.In an effort to neutralize the Chicago BPP, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department placed the chapter under heavy surveillance and conducted several harassment campaigns. Fredrick Allen Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and revolutionary socialist. Hampton was also successful in negotiating a gang truce on local television.
Free Fred!
And you’re going to have to keep on saying that.
Years later, we still feel outraged. We are still fighting the fight our grandparents fought, to no avail!
Say that, I am a revolutionary. Please check your email for further instructions. You can’t do it unless you believe that you can do it.When you leave here, leave here saying, the last words, before you go to bed tonight, say, “I am a revolutionary.” Make that the last words in case you don’t wake up. Let’s do that. Free Fred!