Fred Hampton’s Legacy of Intersectionality and Gender Equality

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Murdered by police at twenty-one, Fred Hampton dedicated his short life to establishing the blueprint for modern-day movements.

By Sasha Ashton

When I was in high school, while at the library exploring resources about Black revolutionaries, I stumbled upon a book called “The Assassination of Fred Hampton” by Jeffery Haas.

The book recounts the murder of the Illinois Black Panther Chairman implemented by the FBI and Chicago police. I checked out the book and wasn’t able to put it down until I finished it. As I read, I felt emotions that I didn’t know I could experience from a book. I grieved the death of a man whose legacy nobody had bothered to teach me, and I am a changed person for learning his legacy.

A Life Cut Short

In the early hours of December 4th, 1969 Chairman Fred’s assassination, and the trials that followed, were nothing short of dehumanizing…

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Sasha Ashton is a writer and radical organizer based in Philadelphia, PA. She is a freshman studying political science on the pre-law track at Temple University. For more from Sasha, you can find her on Instagram @ashasashton and Twitter @slashatrashton.