Fred Hampton

Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was deputy chairman of the U.S. Black Panther Party, chair of the Illinois chapter, and co-founder of the the antiracist, anticlass Rainbow Coalition.

Seen as a radical Marxist-Leninist, communist threat by the FBI under Director J. Edgar Hoover, Hampton was drugged and shot to death in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, who received aid from the Chicago Police Department and the FBI leading up to the attack.