birth_date: 1948-08-30 00:00:00
avg_rating: 4.38
name: Fred Hampton
about: Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was deputy chairman of the U.S. Black Panther Party, chair of the Illinois chapter, and co-founder of the the antiracist, anticlass Rainbow Coalition.Seen as a radical Marxist-Leninist, communist threat by the FBI under Director J. Edgar Hoover, Hampton was drugged and shot to death in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, who received aid from the Chicago Police Department and the FBI leading up to the attack. Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was deputy chairman of the U.S. Black Panther Party, chair of the Illinois chapter, and co-founder of the the antiracist, anticlass Rainbow Coalition.Seen as a radical Marxist-Leninist, communist threat by the FBI under Director J. Edgar Hoover, Hampton was drugged and shot to death in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, who received aid from the Chicago Police Department and the FBI leading up to the attack. ...more
death_date: 1969-12-04 00:00:00