Campaign poster for the trial of the murderers of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, 1976.  Fred Hampton a

Campaign poster for the trial of the murderers of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, 1976.  Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered (assassinated) in a Chicago PD/FBI attack on their apartment, December 4th 1969Most of the text of the poster:FRED HAMPTON Born August 30, 1948, in Maywood, Illinois Murdered December 4, 1969 by state’s Attorney Police and the FBI. During Fred’s short life he inspired thousands of people to fight for their rights to decent lives. At age 17 he organized over 650 people into the youth division of the Maywood NAACP. Recognizing that civil rights could not be attained without radical change in the economic system, he founded the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and promoted a program of revolutionary socialism. As chairman, his charismatic presence as a speaker and organizer together with the success of the Party’s free food and health service programs convinced thousands of both black and white people of the righteousness of the struggle.1967 and 1968: The FBI begins a counterintelligence program aimed at “preventing the rise of a black messiah” and “neutralizing, disrupting, and crippling” the Black Panther Party and other black organizations. April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated. Late 1968: The FBI plants their informant William O'Neal as Fred Hampton’s personal bodyguard. January 1969: FBI attempts to induce the Blackstone Rangers to shoot Fred and other Panther leaders. June 1969: FBI demolishes Chicago BPP offices as part of nationwide raids against Panther offices. November 1969: O'Neal supplies a floor plan to state’s Attorney Hanrahan’s Special Police, marked with an arrow and the words bed where, Hampton sleeps"–the very bed where Fred was sleeping the night he was murdered.December 4, 1969, 4:40 AM at 2337 W. Monroe, home of Fred Hampton: Fourteen of Edward Hanrahan’s handpicked raiders forcibly enter Fred’s apartment armed with pistols, shotguns, rifles and a machine gun. Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are killed; four others are grievously wounded. The police fire more than 100 bullets toward the center of the apartment–one shot at most can be attributed to the Panthers. January 1976: The mothers of Fred and Mark, as well as the survivors of the December 4th raid, are suing the raiders, Hanrahan, and the FBI in a civil rights suit in the Federal Court of Chicago. Evidence of FBI counterintelligence against the Panthers has been ruled irrelevant by trial judge J. Sam Perry. The judge and the government are attempting to cover up forever the truth of the conspiracy. Public pressure must be applied to reach the truth once and for all. “You can kill the revolutionary but you can’t kill the revolution.”Help us bring those responsible to justice!” -- source link
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