CHICAGO (WLS) -- Events across the Chicago area Wednesday are marking 55 years since Fred Hampton's death. The civil rights leader and Black Panther chairman was killed in a Chicago police and FBI ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Fred Hampton, the former leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was remembered Sunday – 50 years after he was shot to death by police. "We will know that he has always and ...

In November 1968, Fred Hampton joined Illinois’ nascent arm of the Black Panther Party. A year later, following Hampton’s meteoric rise as a political organizer with revolution on his mind, he ...

Following Fred Hampton’s meteoric rise as a political organizer, he was dead in December 1969 at just 21 years old, shot twice in the head by FBI raiders. Here's what you need to know about the ...

Hampton died three months after his 21st birthday, and Johnson, then 18, gave birth to his son, Fred Hampton Jr., less than a month after his death.

Before joining the Panthers, Hampton was the youth director of the Maywood, Ill., NAACP. In a community of 27,000 people, he built a strong and united youth group of 500.

Criminal Court Judge Philip Romiti looks back before entering apartment at 2337 W. Monroe where Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were shot to death in Dec. 4, 1969. | Sun-Times Library ...

50 Years After His Death, Fred Hampton’s Legacy Looms Large In Chicago Chicago police officers shot and killed the Illinois Black Panther leader 50 years ago. Reset took a look back at his life ...

The program opened with video footage from 1969. Jefrrey Haas talked about the life and death of Fred Hampton. Then a panel discussion on Fred Hampton was moderated by Bernardine Dohrn.

Most of all, Fred Hampton brokered a truce among Chicago’s major street gangs. The Black Panthers, and Hampton, caught the attention of J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI.