Additional Resources

 

On March 5, 2021 the MSNBC program Morning Joe revisited the incident and played a clip of the original newspiece that ran on December 5, 1969.

 

Articles & Films

The Eastman Museum

A group of independent filmmakers in Chicago, fashioning themselves as the Film Group, set out to profile chairman Fred Hampton, the charismatic 21-year-old leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and ended up documenting the last nine months of his life. See the images and film from their project at The Eastman Museum.

Biography.com Fred Hampton (1948-1969)

Time Magazine article about the Chicago Journalism Review (March 21, 1969)

Jacobin Magazine March 2021 on the FBI’s role in the Fred Hampton raid

The Guardian February 25, 2021

USA Today February 1, 2021

Oxygen February 11, 2021

History.com February 3, 2021

Washington Post December 4, 2019 on the 50th anniversary of Hampton’s murder.

Chicago Tribune December 3, 2019

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) Film

Judas and the Black Messiah HBO Film

 

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