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 raid, when he ...

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 ...

On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, the 21-year-old chair of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was shot dead in his bed during a police raid in which Mark Clark was also killed.

A model of Fred Hampton's apartment, shown at FBI offices in Chicago on May 15, 1970, shows the floor plan. The vantage point of the photo is toward the west, with notations where Hampton and ...

When they were done, chapter founder and chairman Fred Hampton, 21, and member Mark Clark, 22, were dead; four others were seriously injured.

Exactly 48 years ago, Black Panthers Fred Hampton, 21, and Mark Clark, 22, were shot to death by Chicago police. At around 5 a.m. on December 4, 1969, 14 police officers raided Hampton's apartment ...