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4 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
#tdih 1969. Assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark -- shot to death by police in their Chicago apartment. #terrorism

Read more below and find lessons to teach about COINTELPRO and Black Panthers. #BlackLivesMatter zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/blac…
Learn about about Fred Hampton’s childhood (including a connection to Mamie Till), organizing, and murder from this tweet thread by high school teacher and ZEP teacher organizer/curriculum writer Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
See “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther,” an interview with lawyer Jeffery Haas (co-founder of the People’s Law Office) on @democracynow democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_…
Teach about this history with lesson below, "Through examining FBI documents, students learn the scope of the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement."

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When teaching about BPP, include role in healthcare. Ask how impact of COVID-19 would have been different if Panthers’ People’s Free Medical Clinics & other public health approaches hadn't been attacked by COINTELPRO. See book ⬇️by Alondra Nelson @alondra bookshop.org/a/7256/9780816…

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