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You Can Kill the Revolutionary But You Can’t Kill The Revolution? The Assassination of Fred Hampton and the Black Revolutionary Movement

Fifty years ago, on December 4th, 1969, one of the Black civil rights movement’s brightest, energetic and unapologetic voices was assassinated in a state-sanctioned hit. He was 21 years old. he was the Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman. He was Fred Hampton. Hampton, who had never been shy about speaking…

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A Man Was Lynched Yesterday…

Herbert Lee, a 50 year-old black man was a cotton and dairy farmer in Amite County, Mississippi. Lee had a wife and nine children. He was a quiet man who regularly attended NAACP meetings at a neighboring farm, during a time when receiving threats and harassment  were common when doing…

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