{"id":18987,"date":"2021-02-15T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=18987"},"modified":"2021-02-15T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:07:20","slug":"more-about-fred-hampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2021\/02\/15\/more-about-fred-hampton\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Fred Hampton"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>More about Fred Hampton, the Black Panther leader who was killed by Chicago police at age 21 in 1969.<\/p>\r\n<p>Starting with this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clairewillett\/status\/1266894029498675200\">65-tweet thread<\/a> (from 2020) about Hampton, and about ways in which we white Americans are often raised on lies about Black American history.<\/p>\r\n<p>Below are links to some of the pieces that that thread links to, in case you want to explore further.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>A 1976 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/was-fred-hampton-executed\/\"><cite>Nation<\/cite> article<\/a> about a civil suit against FBI agents and police. Gives a whole lot more detail, including further outrageous behavior by lawyers and judges.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A description of <a href=\"https:\/\/peopleslawoffice.com\/about-civil-rights-lawyers\/history\/the-murder-of-fred-hampton\/\">what friends and the People\u2019s Law Office did to preserve evidence<\/a> in the aftermath of the killing. Also includes further links to more information.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/12\/4\/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how\">The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther<\/a>\u201d: a 25-minute segment from <cite>Democracy Now<\/cite> in 2009, on the 40th anniversary of the killing. Includes video of Hampton speaking, as well as video taken in his apartment after the killing. There\u2019s a text transcript, but it doesn\u2019t have the power of the video recordings. I haven\u2019t watched this whole thing yet.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/peopleslawoffice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hampton.Cointelpro-Booklet.pdf\">Counter-Intelligence: A Documentary Look at America\u2019s Secret Police<\/a>,\u201d a scanned PDF of a 100-page 1980 booklet full of FBI memos and news articles about COINTELPRO.<\/li>\r\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/african-americans\/individuals\/fred-hampton\">Fred Hampton material in the African American Heritage section of the National Archives<\/a>. I think this is mostly just a catalog\u2014I think most of the material listed isn\u2019t available online\u2014but I haven\u2019t explored it much.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>See also previous posts from me, on Facebook:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>About \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10223350818418620\">This is the house that blood built<\/a>,\u201d by Abe Peck.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10224640921630394\">quote from Hampton<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10225259408452178\">Info about the new Hampton movie <cite>Judas and the Black Messiah<\/cite><\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-improving-society","category-race-ethnicity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18990,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions\/18990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}