Fred Hampton

Fredrick "Chairman Fred" Allen Hampton Sr. 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, and the Young Lords, 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."

30 August 1948

Born on the same birth date (30 August 1948): Lewis Black • Victor Skumin

Born on the same birth day (30 August): Andrew Onderdonk • Bhagwati Charan Verma • David Maslanka • Duane Brown • Gerald Albright • Jim Paredes • Johanna Braddy • Lelia Masaga • Leonor Fini • Liam Cooper • Michael Gladis • Michael Michele • Ra Luhse • Ricky Sanders • Roger Bushell • Tania Foster • Trevor Jackson (performer) • Victor Skumin

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