The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther - Softcover

Haas, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1641603216 ISBN 13: 9781641603218

Verlag: Chicago Review Press, 2019

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Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black Messiah

On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancÉe. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed.

She heard one officer say, “He’s still alive.” She then heard two shots. A second officer said, “He’s good and dead now.” She looked at Jeff and asked, “What can you do?” The Assassination of Fred Hampton remains Haas’s personal account of how he and People’s Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton’s assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy. Fifty years later, Haas writes that there is still an urgent need for the revolutionary systemic changes Hampton was organizing to accomplish. 

Not only a story of justice delivered, this book spotlights Hampton as a dynamic community leader and an inspiration for those in the ongoing fight against injustice and police brutality.

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Jeffrey Haas is an attorney and cofounder of the People's Law Office, whose clients included the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, community activists, and a large number of those opposed to the Vietnam War. He has handled cases involving prisoners' rights, Puerto Rican nationalists, protestors opposed to human rights violations in Central America, police torture, and the wrongfully accused. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1641603216
• ISBN 13: 9781641603218
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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