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Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was the era’s most influential militant black power organization.

Its members confronted politicians, challenged the police, and protected black citizens from brutality. The party’s community service programs - called “survival programs” - provided food, clothing, and transportation. Rather than integrating American society, members wanted to change it fundamentally. For them, black power was a global revolution.

Organizing a Revolutionary Party

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, young political activists in Oakland, California, were disappointed in the failure of the civil rights movement to improve the condition of blacks outside the South. They saw brutality against civil rights protesters as part of a long tradition of police violence and state oppression. They immersed themselves in the history of blacks in America. In 1966 they organized young, poor, disenfranchised African Americans into the Black Panther Party.^[[1] https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/black-panther-party-challenging-police-and-promoting-social-change]


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Many American schools usually keep their Black History curriculum on the Civil Rights Movement narrow down to just a handful of people. Most grade students never learned about Fred Hampton in the classroom. He was the chairman of the Black Panther Party in Illinois—a Chicagoland native with Southern roots who built a coalition of Black Chicagoans, white Southerners who had moved up north from Appalachia, Latino immigrants and even Chicago street gang members.

Chairman Hampton worked to successfully form and lead this rainbow coalition until he was killed by police on December 4, 1969.

Some argue that’s why he was killed.

This is the story of how Chairman Fred Hampton Sr.—a Windy City native with Southern roots—united a city for a common cause, and how the government unraveled it.

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