What is Fred Hampton?
{{infobox person | image = | birth_date = August 30, 1948 | birth_place =[[Summit, Illinois]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1969|12|4|1948|8|30}} | death_place = [[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S. | death_cause = Shooting<ref>{{cite web|title=Shoot it out? The death of Fred Hampton|url=http://chicagocrimescenes.blogspot.com/2009/11/shoot-it-out-death-of-fred-hampton.html|work=The Chicago Crime Scenes Project|access-date=8 November 2016|date=3 November 2009}}</ref> | resting_place = Bethel Cemetery<br>Haynesville, Louisiana, U.S.<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68259672 Find A Grave: Fred Hampton 1948-1969]</ref> | citizenship = American | occupation = Activist, [[revolutionary]] | party = [[Black Panther Party]] | education = [[Proviso East High School]] | years_active = 1965–1969 | employer = | organization = | known_for = Deputy chairman of the [[Illinois]] chapter [[Black Panther Party]] | partner = Deborah Johnson <br>(also known as '''Akua Njeri''') | relatives = [[Fred Hampton Jr.]] (son) }} '''Fred Hampton''' was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago, Illinois. He was the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the BBP and the deputy chairman of the national BPP. He is mainly known for the way he died in 1969, aged 21. His apartment was raided on December 4th. In a gun battle lasting 20 minutes, Hampton was [[shooting|shot]].<ref name=GrossmanCT>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/history/ct-black-panther-raid-flashback-1207-20141206-story.html |title=Fatal Black Panther raid in Chicago set off sizable aftershocks |author=Ron Grossman |date=4 December 2014 |publisher=Chicago Tribune |access-date=8 November 2016}}</ref> Mark Clark, was also killed and four other Panthers were wounded.<ref name=2bpkilledHIST>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/police-kill-two-members-of-the-black-panther-party |title=1969 Police kill two members of the Black Panther Party |website=This Day In History |publishe