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Fred Hampton, American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (died 1969)
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Fred Hampton
African-American activist (1948–1969)
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was an American activist and revolutionary socialist. He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. He founded the anti-racist, anti-classist…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Black Panther Party
US political organization (1966–1982)
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. The party was active in the United States between 1966 and 1982, with chapters in many major…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)