The Black Panther Party of Chicago emerged on the city's West Side in the autumn of 1968. As one of 45 Black Panther chapters around the country, the “Illinois Chapter” gained over 300 new members within four months of its founding because many young black Chicagoans identified with the Panthers' militant denunciations of racism ...

Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American Civil Rights revolutionary. [4][5] He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter.

To help protect black communities from violence by the police, the Black Panthers set up groups called “police patrols” who would guard city streets. In 1968, Fred Hampton and Bobby Rush founded the BPP’s local branch, the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP).

The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.

Sep 28, 2024 · The former Church of the Epiphany, now Epiphany Center for the Arts, was a significant location of the Black Panther Party in Chicago. Students for a Democratic Society held its meetings here, and through this relationship with Reverend Rempfer Whitehouse, "The People's Church" became a major rally site for the Party.

The Black Panther Party in Chicago In Chicago two different groups negotiated a merger and formed the Illinois Black Panther Party in 1968. The organization included Fred Hampton, Rufus Walls, Jewel Cook, Billy “Che” Brooks, Christina May, Bob Lee, Lynn French and many others.

To map the footprint of the Panthers in Chicago, Wills and her team (which included Loyola University Chicago graduate students Mikey Spehn and Adam Yunis) interviewed 30 members and a dozen others associated with the party.

Feb 24, 2024 · In Chicago, preservationists have launched an unusual effort to explore the radical history of the 1960s civil rights group through the city’s built environment.

Aug 7, 2024 · WEST LOOP — When the Democratic National Convention came to Chicago in 1968, the Illinois Black Panther Party was just beginning. That August 56 years ago, Bobby Rush, Bob Brown and Fred Hampton came together to found the party’s Chicago chapter.

In an October 1969 raid, police used shotguns to blast through the steel door to ambush Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman, Fred Hampton. Now a Walgreens, this location serves as a historical reminder of white supremacy has destroyed.