{"id":37795,"date":"2011-05-20T22:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T02:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/37795\/heroes-fred-hampton\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T02:25:31","slug":"heroes-fred-hampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/37795\/heroes-fred-hampton\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Fred Hampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We expected about twenty Panthers to be in the apartment when the police raided the place. Only two of those black nigger fuckers were killed, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014FBI Special Agent Gregg York<\/p>\n<p>Fred Hampton was murdered by law enforcement officials of the State Attorney&#8217;s Office tactical unit, the Chicago Police Department, and the FBI.  He was murdered in his sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Hampton began organizing as a member of the NAACP Youth Council.  He was very effect.  He showed great leadership skills, was charismatic and an eloquent speaker.  In November 1968, he became of member of the Black Panther Party.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky to have attended a lecture given by him during the Summer of 1968 as part of the training program for the Prince of Peace Volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Black Panther Party he manage to build coalitions which included the various black and latino gangs in Chicago and the Students for a Democratic Society.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 4 AM on December 4, 1969, he was murdered in his sleep by the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We expected about twenty Panthers to be in the apartment when the police raided the place. Only two of those black nigger fuckers were killed, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.&#8221; \u2014FBI Special Agent Gregg York Fred Hampton was murdered by law enforcement officials of the State Attorney&#8217;s Office tactical unit, the Chicago Police Department, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}