Fred Hampton - Activist by WALTER CHAMBERLAIN JR https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve en-us 2020-06-04 18:06:00 UTC 2020-06-08 15:28:49 UTC hello@padlet.com 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/611656353 Fred Hampton was the deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP) & was also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). ]]> 2020-06-04 18:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/611656353 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/611672938 "Fred Hampton"
Mack, D. (2008, April 16) Fred Hampton (1948-1969). Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hampton-fred-1948-1969/

"An Unlikely Alliance"
Excerpt from Colette Gaiter, “Chicago 1969: When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites,” The Conversation, January 8, 2017, https://theconversation.com/chicago-1969-when-black-panthers-aligned-with-confederate-flag-wielding-working-class-whites-68961

Fred Hampton | Excerpt from “Power Anywhere Where There's People” | 1969 (from transcript available here: https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/fhamptonspeech.html) 






]]> 2020-06-04 18:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/611672938 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/613178719 An activist that Hampton would have been allied with is Martin Luther King Jr. Both of these activists have anti-capitalist perspectives. Hampton also became a part of the BPP shortly after King was assassinated to continue is legacy.]]> 2020-06-05 15:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/613178719 Areas of Social Activism 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/613432854 - Fighting against police brutality
 
- Fighting against systemic racism

- Empowering the most 
oppressed sector of Chicago's Black community

- Fighting against capitalism

- Fighting for better education 
resources and recreational facilities for people of color]]> 2020-06-05 17:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/613432854 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/614347542 2020-06-06 15:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/614347542 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/614353104 Hampton on capitalism:
" We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’ve stood up and said we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution."

King on capitalism: 
“We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.”
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]]> 2020-06-06 16:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/614359812 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/614365662 2020-06-06 16:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/614365662 The Rainbow Coalition 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615624572 Formed in 1969, the Rainbow Coalition was an alliance of many protester groups of all races and ethnicities. This coalition was created because Hampton believed that one big group of protesters was more effective than many small groups of protesters. ]]> 2020-06-07 19:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615624572 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615629398 2020-06-07 19:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615629398 NAACP & the 500 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615653827 As a youth organizer for the NAACP, Hampton was able to assemble a youth group of 500 members from a community of about 27,000 people. He worked with the 500 to fight for the improvement of education resources and recreational facilities for Maywood's (a Chicago suburb Hampton grew up in) impoverished black communities. While being a member of the NAACP, Hampton desired to accomplish social change with community organizing and peaceful activism. ]]> 2020-06-07 20:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615653827 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615665297 2020-06-07 20:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615665297 22wchamberlain1 https://padlet.com/22wchamberlain1/tekoa0836qhplbve/wish/615691588 Hampton on racism:
"We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity.

King on racism:
“I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.  I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'”

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