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While doing research for my history fair project, i ran into a very important guy that isn 't really spoken about today. This man name is Fred Hampton, and he was born August 30,1948 and killed December 4, 1969 right here in Chicago, IL (democracynow.org). Although it happened right here in our city, not many know about it and that really concerns me. He was raised in Maywood. He graduated from Proviso East High School in 1966 before he enrolled at Triton Junior College where he studied law. I decided to further dig into this man, and his involvement with the Black Panthers and their affect on Chicago. Fred Hampton was deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (democracynow.org). While doing further research, i began …show more content…

Fred was dating a woman name Deborah Johnson (Akia Njere) and she was 81/2 months pregnant when he was murdered. In early October, they rented a four and half room apartment located at 2337 W.Monroe St to be closer to the BPP headquarters. This here apartment is where Fred and another BPP leader (Mark Clark) were murdered. Before Hampton was murdered, he was quickly moving up in the Black Panther Party. His actions and skills were thought of as remarkable. In 1968, he was about to join the BPP with a southside gang so that he can double the size of the BPP. On Dec 3, Hampton taught a political education course at a local church and afterwards him, his girlfriend, and a few other BPP members went back to his house. The police decided they were going to raid Hampton’s apartment on December 4. The raid was led by Cook County State 's Attorney Edward Hanrahan (Wikipedia.org). Around 4:00 a.m the the police met up and around 4:45 a.m they marched through Hampton’s apartment (Wikipedia.org). Mark Clark was on security duty with a gun on his lap and was shot instantly in the head. His gun accidentally went off accidentally, and this was the only time the panthers let off fire the whole morning. Fred was laying in bed with Deborah. They took her out the room and shot Fred two times in the head. One officer said he’s good and dead now. (Deborah Johnson

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