Name: Why the US government murdered Fred Hampton
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the Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton.

The next thing I remember was someone in our room

shaking Chairman Fred. "Chairman, Chairman, wake up, wake up."

You could smell the cordite from the gunshot.

If you've ever been under gunfire, five minutes is five hours.

Then another voice unfamiliar to me said:

I knew they were talking about Chairman Fred.

Fred Hampton was murdered by his government.

he was a leader in a movement practicing a new kind of activism.

A movement targeted because of its power to unite people.

"Marking 1964 as a historic year in race relations,

on July 2, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act."

In the 1960s, racial progress in the US was at a turning point.

Activists won major civil rights victories, and the era of Jim Crow laws came to an end.

there were still deep social and economic gaps for Black people across the country.

Black Americans continued to face high poverty,

and they still had little to no political representation.

These disparities, and an increase in brutal police violence,

Many young Black activists grew frustrated

that the changes they'd hoped for hadn't come.

After the police killing of an unarmed Black teen in San Francisco,

Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, founded what was initially called

the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

and knew it was legal to carry arms in California, as long as they were not concealed.

The Panthers began to patrol their communities.

As the movement grew, several highly-publicized confrontations with police

would bring about mainstream awareness of the Black Panther Party.

The allegations in these confrontations were serious.

But the public accounts of them were typically one-sided,

Media coverage depicted party members as a caricature of Black militancy.

The Black Panther Party was portrayed as a marauding gang.

They say our goal was to kill all the white people.

In reality, the Panthers did call for radical change.

What they were hoping for was a revolution.

A revolution to overthrow the capitalist enterprise.

But what they called revolution might not actually sound so radical today.

They focused on socialism as a way of solving economic means.

They looked to places like Canada, which always had a democratic political system,

but the economic system has always been socialism.

So they wanted a democratic socialist country here in the United States,

which they saw as a more equitable, more humane system.

They released a "Ten Point Plan" for broad social reform,

that called for an end to police brutality,

education, and freedom from prisons and jails.

Chapters began forming across the country.

They started to implement social programs,

The Panthers would say, put that theory into practice.

If you really want to change minds, and you really want to meet the people where they are,

you have to give them the services which they need.

The programs included food and clothing drives,

and were funded largely by volunteers and donations from businesses.

One of their biggest programs was a free breakfast for children initiative.

Here we are, living in 1966, '67, it's the most wealthy nation in the world.

especially in the African American communities.

So one of the first community service programs was free breakfast for school children.

that Akua Njeri, then known as Deborah Johnson,

and Chairman Fred had come up to the school to speak.

we're feeding over 3,000 children a week.

We're serious about making power to the people a reality,

we're not just sitting up here jaw jabbin and talking shit.

And I said, damn, he's serious about this business.

Fred Hampton grew up in Maywood, Illinois,

He became president of his local NAACP Youth Council in 1967,

Shortly after, he was recruited by a founder of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party.

building and leading the Illinois chapter of Black Panther Party.

Soon after they met, Njeri and Hampton became a couple.

Anybody that has met him or heard him speak,

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