Never forget him. He was just 14 years old when he was executed in America.. the youngest person ever to be executed he was 100% innocent. It would take the state over 60 years to say they made a mistake.. falsely accusing of killing too young white girls.
FRED HAMPTON JR. ON HIS FATHER'S MURDER
On December 4, 1969, the Chicago Police Department brutally assassinated Fred Hampton, the chairman of the local chapter of the Black Panther Party. At just 21 years old, Hampton had already established himself as a visionary organizer and revolutionary thinker. As the chairman of the Panthers, he formed a cross-racial coalition known as the Rainbow Coalition, which included the Puerto Rican Young Lords and the white Appalachian Young Patriots. This coalition posed one of the most significant challenges to Chicago's white-supremacist police state.
Hampton was drugged and remained unconscious while the Chicago police sprayed his apartment with over 100 bullets. His fiancée, Akua Njeri (formerly Deborah Johnson), was fortunate to escape with her life; she was more than eight months pregnant with their son, Fred Hampton Jr., who has dedicated his life to upholding his father's revolutionary legacy.
In this video, Fred Hampton Jr. returns to the site of the Chicago Police Department’s crime and vividly recounts the details of the raid, connecting it to the centuries-long history of state terror against Black people in the United States.
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56 years ago today, Black Panther leader and revolutionary Fred Hampton was assassinated in his bed by Chicago police. He was 21 years old.
Raised in a working class, racially segregated neighborhood of Chicago, Hampton became radicalized in college during the Civil Rights Movement. As Chairman of the Chicago BPP, he helped to develop and lead community programs such as the free breakfast for children program and health clinics. He’s often remembered for his efforts to build multinational unity between Black and other oppressed communities and
movements.
Fred Hampton taught us that the future we want to see — free of capitalist exploitation and white supremacy — will only come if we fight for it.
25,000 Sudanese children killed in WEEKS, not years!!!!! The world is watching one of the worst child massacres in modern history being done by the UAE and still staying silent
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I wish y’all would stop downplaying it.
.@GovParsonMO, please do not let Missouri execute
@innocence@the_MIP client #MarcellusWilliams, an innocent person — where there is overwhelming evidence that his trial was constitutionally unfair — on 9/24. https://t.co/1wG1EvXpDu