"Freedom Fighters All Stars Sweatshirt - Fred Hampton"

Freedom Fighters All Stars Series Sweatshirt - RIP Fred Hampton

This wearable art piece commemorates a world renowned freedom fighter. Fred Hampton was an American activist. He came to prominence in his late teens and very early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter. As a progressive African American, he founded the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that initially included the Black Panthers, Young Patriots (which organized poor whites), and the Young Lords (which organized Hispanics), and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. A Marxist-Leninist, Hampton considered fascism the greatest threat, saying "nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all!"

Hampton's killing in 1969 was part of the FBl's secret COINTELPRO program. COINTELPRO targeted members of the Black Panther party and other black and leftist groups in the 1960s and early 1970s, surveilling and infiltrating them to sow discord. "COINTELPRO was designed to destroy black liberation organizations starting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X," FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, who started the program, worried that a black "messiah" would electrify the movement.

** SPECIAL EDITION SWEATSHIRT - LIMITED QUANTITY!! ** 

Color: Black

 Fit: True to Size

80% Combed Cotton / 20% Polyester

French Terry

Drop shoulder sleeves

Model is 5’10 wearing size M

Wash Cold Inside Out - Hang Dry

7-10 DAYS TO SHIP

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