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The youngest child of Francis and Iberia Hampton, Fred was raised in the Chicago suburbs with his brother and sister.

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Fred began his activism work in high school. He protested that his school was only nominating white girls to run for homecoming queens, which resulted in the inclusion of Black girls.

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In 1966  enrolled at Triton Junior College where he studied law. He also attended Crane Junior College (later Malcolm X College) and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

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The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California to stop rampant police harassment and brutality in the city's black community.

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In 1967 the FBI identified Fred as a radical threat. The cheif of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover mission was to keep the black movement from growing.

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In the summer of 1967 Hampton led a series of rallies and protests. To demand the construction of a racially integrated public swimming pool in Maywood.

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Hampton started and led many community programs. These programs included breakfast programs on the West Side, a free medical center, a door to door program of health services and blood drives for the Cook County Hospital.

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In November of 1967 Hampton joined the Chicago chapter of the NAACP. He led their Youth Council of the organization's West Suburban Branch.

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in 1968 Hampton parted ways with the NAACP and joined the Black Panther Party as one of the Illinois chapter’s original members. Sooner after he joined the party the FBI had started to monitor Hampton's every move.

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Hampton was killed during a raid on his residence by Chicago police officers. They raid his apartment in hopes to find illegal weapons and the only person who survived the raid was Fred́́´s pregnant wife.