Fred Hampton & The Black Panthers

The Liturgists Podcast

The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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An American activist and revolutionary socialist. He rose quickly in the Black Panthers based on his organizing skills, substantial oratorical gifts, and personal charisma. He took chairmanship of the Illinois state Black Panther Party after the party split. Because of his strong leadership, in 1967 the FBI identified him as a radical threat and began to subvert his activities in Chicago. In December of 1969, he was shot and killed in his bed during a pre-dawn raid of his apartment by Cook County State Attorney's office in conjunction with the the Chicago Police Department and the FBI. At the time, the homicide was considered justified, but in 1982, a settlement of $1.85 million was paid to 9 plaintiffs after a civil lawsuit was brought against the three law enforcement organizations responsible for his death. Scholars now widely consider Hampton's death an assassination initiated under the FBI. Let's talk about Fred Hampton & The Black Panthers. If you like this podcast, join The Liturgists to receive even more content like this and talk with other liturgists via our weekly video chat.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the liturgist podcast.
0:05.4	You are now listening to Black History is American History.
0:23.4	I'm William Matthews.
0:24.4	Hey, I'm propaganda.
0:25.4	I'm Nikki Black.
0:26.4	And I'm Andra Henry.
0:29.1	Today's moment in Black History, Fred Hampton.
0:32.4	Frederick Allen Hampton, born August 30, 1948, was an American activist and revolutionary
0:39.5	socialist.
0:40.6	As a youth, Hampton was gifted both in the classroom and athletically, and dreamed of
0:46.1	playing center field for the New York Yankees.
0:49.8	He graduated from Proviso East High School with honors in 1966 and majored in pre-law.
0:57.2	He planned to become more familiar with the legal system to use it as a defense against
1:01.1	the police.
1:02.1	When he and fellow Black Panthers later followed the police in his community supervision program,
1:09.3	watching out for police brutality, they used his knowledge of the law as a defense.
1:15.8	Hampton rose quickly in the Black Panthers, based on his organizing skills, substantial
1:21.3	oratorial gifts, and personal charisma.
1:24.8	Once he became the leader of the Chicago chapter, he organized weekly rallies, worked closely
1:31.4	with the Black Panther Party's local people's clinic, taught political education classes every
1:38.0	morning at 6 a.m. and launched a project for community supervision of the police.
1:44.0	Hampton was also instrumental in the Black Panther Party's free breakfast program.
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