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Learn about the death of Fred Hampton, a civil rights leader and deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party

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Fred Hampton, in full Frederick Allen Hampton, (born Aug. 30, 1948, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—killed Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago), U.S. civil rights leader and deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party’s Illinois chapter who formed Chicago’s first “Rainbow Coalition.” He was a target of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, a secret operation intended to discredit and neutralize organizations that the agency considered subversive. In 1968 Hampton joined the Black Panther Party as one of the Illinois chapter’s original members. The Panthers and law enforcement often clashed, and the violence culminated on Dec. 4, 1969, when a 14-man team of police officers raided Hampton’s apartment on the West Side of Chicago. When the raid was over, Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark were dead. Outrage over Hampton’s death, especially in Chicago’s Black community, led to greater scrutiny of the FBI’s attempts to dismantle the Black Panthers and other African American organizations.

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