What the records say
- When
- 1969
- Kind
- Assassination
- Deaths
- 2
- Coordinates
- 41.88° N, 87.69° W
- Description
- 1969 murder in Chicago, U.S.
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Assassination of Fred Hampton
1969 murder in Chicago, U.S.
On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, a Marxist-Leninist African American activist, chairman of the Black Panther Party's Illinois chapter, and founder of the Rainbow Coalition, was shot and killed in his sleep during a predawn police raid at his apartment in Chicago, Illinois. He was 21 years old. Also killed was fellow Panther Mark Clark, who was on security duty.
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