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#1 Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, spoke at a church in Chicago in August 1969. He said, I’m free. I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people. I went down to the valley and picked up the beat of the people.
#2 I was eventually asked to be a part of the movement, and I obliged. I became a lawyer for the movement, and I loved it. I was speaking in a quieter voice: I believe I was born not to die in a car wreck or slipping on a piece of ice, but I’m going to be able to die doing the things I was born for.
#3 I was born in 1942, in Atlanta. My father, Joseph Haas, was the attorney for the Southern Regional Council, a civic organization concerned with racial inequalities in the South. He worked with civil rights organizers to implement the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
#4 I was raised by blacks, as my mother worked with the Atlanta Committee for International Visitors to host African delegations. I learned how to plow behind our mule, Boley, and address her with the commands gee and haw to get her to turn right or left.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	17 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822511750
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, spoke at a church in Chicago in August 1969. He said, I’m free. I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people. I went down to the valley and picked up the beat of the people.

#2

I was eventually asked to be a part of the movement, and I obliged. I became a lawyer for the movement, and I loved it. I was speaking in a quieter voice: I believe I was born not to die in a car wreck or slipping on a piece of ice, but I’m going to be able to die doing the things I was born for.

#3

I was born in 1942, in Atlanta. My father, Joseph Haas, was the attorney for the Southern Regional Council, a civic organization concerned with racial inequalities in the South. He worked with civil rights organizers to implement the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

#4

I was raised by blacks, as my mother worked with the Atlanta Committee for International Visitors to host African delegations. I learned how to plow behind our mule, Boley, and address her with the commands gee and haw to get her to turn right or left.

#5

I emulated Walter and took great pride in showing me what he knew. I was his Jim, and he was my Huck. But unlike our predecessors, the traveling Walter and I did was to baseball games.

#6

I was the first Jewish kid to go to Liberty Gwinn, a county elementary school near my house. The kids there would call me Jewish horn-head because of my horns, but they never called me names for being black.

#7

In 1960, I was a high school senior in Atlanta, and I frequented the Royal Peacock Social Club, which was a integrated nightclub. I was half-pint bottles of bourbon or Seagram’s Seven, and I poured generous amounts into the paper cups of Coke I bought for mixers.

#8

I wanted to prove to myself that I could survive in a setting without relying on my privilege or my family’s money. I enlisted in the Army Reserve in 1963, and was sent to Fort Jackson, near Columbia, South Carolina. Three days later, President Kennedy was assassinated.

#9

Iberia and Fred’s son, Francis, was born on August 30, 1948, in Argo, a suburb on the southwestern side of Chicago. His parents grew up outside the small town of Haynesville in northern Louisiana. In 1958, when Fred was ten, his family moved to Maywood, a working-class suburb.

#10

Fred was a smart boy, but his grades didn’t reflect his smartness. He loved to read, especially history. He and his brother Bill would visit Iberia’s parents in Louisiana during the summers, and Fred would talk about the murder of Emmett Till, which he had heard about when he was younger.

#11

Fred was a very politically active teenager, and he was constantly harassed by the police. He read black political authors, and he was very outspoken about his beliefs.

#12

Fred was very popular in high school, and was often chosen to lead the Inter-racial Council, which dealt with issues between the white and black students. He used his popularity to help advocate for the youth branch of the NAACP, which he eventually led.

#13

I met my classmate Bernardine Dohrn at the University of Chicago Law School in 1965. She would become the leader of the Weathermen faction of Students for a Democratic Society. She wore short skirts and high boots, and looked you in the eye.

#14

I was horrified by the Vietnam War, and I couldn’t see myself fighting in it or being killed in it. I was sympathetic to the protesters’ objectives, but I wasn’t ready to join in and accept the consequence – likely expulsion from school.

#15

I met Mary Frank in 1967. She was twenty-three, a year younger than me, and had recently divorced a brilliant, alcoholic English professor at Northwestern University. We meshed.

#16

I graduated from law school in 1967, and moved into Mary’s studio apartment in Chicago. I took a job with the Legal Assistance Foundation, representing indigent people in noncriminal cases. In the summer of 1967, I worked half time and studied for the bar exam. When I passed, I took the train to Springfield for the swearing-in ceremony.

#17

In 1966, Fred refused to register for the draft, and declared he was not just for peace in Vietnam, but victory in Vietnam for the Vietnamese.

#18

The Black Power movement was a response to the white media’s reaction to the term Black Power. It was a positive message for blacks to be strong and beautiful, and there was strength in unity. But many whites saw it as an attack on all white people.

#19

Dr. King’s march in Chicago failed to make any major changes, and his nonviolent tactics did not attract young blacks. Meanwhile, his marches stirred up the whites, who were angry about being excluded from white neighborhoods.

#20

In 1967, Fred and other young blacks were drawn to the events in Oakland, California, where a group of armed Panthers went to the California legislature to protest pending legislation that would overturn the law allowing them to legally carry unconcealed weapons.

#21

I was drafted into the Army in 1968, and while I didn’t want to kill or be killed in Vietnam, I didn’t want to go against everything I believed. So I refused to go.

#22

I was shaken and disoriented after the shooting. I didn’t know who to trust or believe in. I went to court and began to interview the young men behind bars, trying to get their bond reduced.

#23

Dennis was a lawyer who wanted to be a people’s lawyer. He was called to bond court in Chicago after the riots, where he represented many of the arrested protesters.

#24

In 1969, it seemed like none of us had time. We were heading for the rapids, not knowing what was ahead. In March 1968, Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown opened a SNCC office on the South Side. Fred went to the office and invited Stokely to speak in Maywood.

#25

The Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers began in November 1968, and Fred Hampton was their chairman. They opened their office, and Fred began advocating revolution. Six months later, the chapter temporarily stopped taking new members so they could integrate those who had joined.

#26

Fred went from site to site working at the breakfast programs and talking to the kids and their parents about what the Black Panther Party was trying to do for the community. He urged Panther members to sell increasing numbers of the Black Panther newspaper throughout Chicago.

#27

The Panthers also hired white progressive lawyers to help them with their cases. While the Panthers’ vision of how the revolutionary struggle would actually come about was not always clear, at least to me, the work of the programs and organizing was always present.

#28

Fred’s attempts to work with and organize gang members caused fear throughout the police and FBI. After the meeting at Ranger headquarters, Chicago police arrested a carload of armed Panthers driving away, which led to criminal charges against the Panthers and speculation that the Rangers had snitched on them.

#29

In 1969, the Chicago police arrested Fred following an FBI tip that he was appearing on a local TV station. In front of the live cameras, he was led away on a traffic warrant. The Panthers sought alliances with other groups in Chicago, such as the Young Lords Organization, which had started as a Puerto Rican street gang.