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Mark Clark (June 28, 1947 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Clark was instrumental in the creation of the enduring Free Breakfast Program in Peoria, as well as the Peoria branch’s engagement in local rainbow coalition politics, primarily revolving around the anti-war movement. [4]
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American Marxist-Leninist revolutionary.He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter.
Black Panther Party Free Food Program flier shows images of Black Panther female activists Angela Davis and Ericka Huggins with the title "10,000 Free Bags of Groceries" for the Black Community Survival Conference in March 1972. The Black Panther Party was involved in many community projects as part of their organization.
Fred Hampton giving a speech at a rally in Grant Park, Chicago 1969. The 1960s was an era characterized by organization-driven social movements. Chicago was home to organizations like the Illinois Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, the Young Patriots, and later Rising Up Angry. These organizations all sought to address issues like ...
Director Stanley Nelson said of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panthers were founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 and upon their founding had a relatively simple goal — stop police brutality.
The Murder of Fred Hampton is a 1971 American documentary film about the short life and death of Fred Hampton, a young African-American civil rights activist in Chicago and leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party.
Jiménez in the 1960s founded the Young Lords as a street gang to counter the growing hostility toward the Puerto Rican community in Lincoln Park, at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. By 1968, the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black Panther Party, according to the Library of Congress ...
It was 1966 and the civil rights movement had been slowly building steam for more than a decade when the The post 55 years after Black Panther Party’s founding, FBI’s COINTELPRO files must be ...