Malcolm London, a teaching artist at Young Chicago Authors and a - TopicsExpress



          

Malcolm London, a teaching artist at Young Chicago Authors and a Louder Than a Bomb All Star, reads from Fred Hamptons 1969 speech at Olivet Presbyterian Church in Chicago, in February 1969. As deputy chair of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton set up the Black Panther’s free breakfast program and coined the phrase Rainbow Coalition after forging a multi-racial alliance between Chicagos gangs, eventually joined by groups including the Young Lords and Young Patriots. On December 4, 1969 a tactical unit of the Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office, supported by the FBI and Chicago Police Department, murdered the twenty-one-year-old Fred Hampton in his bed at 2337 West Monroe Street. vimeo/48825271
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:56:20 +0000

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