40th Anniversary Fred Hampton Memorial Scholarship Fund

Bill Hampton talks about the 40th Anniversary Fred Hampton Memorial Scholarship Fund in Maywood, Illinois, September 11, 12 & 13, 2009


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhamptonF.htm
Hampton founded the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party in November 1968. He immediately established a community service program. This included the provision of free breakfasts for schoolchildren and a medical clinic that did not charge patients for treatment. Hampton also taught political education classes and instigated a community control of police project.

In the early hours of the 4th December, 1969, the Panther headquarters was raided by the police for the fourth time. The police later claimed that the Panthers opened fire and a shoot-out took place. During the next ten minutes Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed. Witnesses claimed that Hampton was wounded in the shoulder and then executed by a shot to the head.

http://www.jmls.edu/students/student_services/scholarships/fred_hampton.shtml
Fred Hampton Memorial Legal Assistance Scholarship Fund

This scholarship which was established to assist African American students in the study of law at The John Marshall Law Student is named in honor of the late Fred Hampton, who valiantly gave his life over 30 years ago fighting oppression and racism as the Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party.

http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Announcements/Maywood_street_statue_honor_slai...
Maywood street statue honor slain Panther leader Hampton

September 9, 2007
BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter/mjthomas@suntimes.com

From now on, Oak Street in Maywood will be known as Fred Hampton Way.

Relatives of the slain Black Panther leader joined congressmen, activists and Maywood residents Saturday to dedicate the street and a statue of Hampton that now sits in front of the Fred Hampton Family Aquatic Center.

Last year, efforts to name a street on Chicago's West Side for Hampton failed amid controversy that Hampton and the Panthers advocated violence against police.

But there was no such debate in Maywood, whose mayor, Henderson Yarbrough, said the village council "unanimously, proudly" voted to give Hampton his due.

"There ought to be some footprints in the sand in relation to this man," said the Rev. Al Sampson, one of about 75 people at the ceremony. "Fred Hampton represents part of the tradition of liberation freedom fighters."

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