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1969 Fred Hampton speaks at rally in Chicago
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-27 at 5.14.11 PM_thumb.png2023-03-28T00:15:18+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Movements such as the Black Panthers were criminalised by law enforcement agencies. The FBI viewed the Black Panther Party as a communist enemy of the government due to its “militancy”, the message of Black nationalism and determination to end police brutality, and used its power to crack down on it hard. FBI head J Edgar Hoover declared war on the Black Panther Party and called them “one of the greatest threats to the nation’s internal security”. The group soon became the target of a secret FBI counterintelligence programme COINTELPRO. This culminated in 1969 with a five-hour police shoot-out at the Panthers’ Southern California headquarters and a Chicago police raid where the Black Panthers’ Illinois chapter deputy chairman, Fred Hampton, who had been identified by the FBI as a “radical threat”, was murdered on December 4.plain2023-03-28T00:15:18+00:001969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49