Your browser does not support JavaScript - all functionality on this web page will be lost.

Title Work

Title No: 6942

Title: Fred Hampton murder scene

Medium: Documentation

Original Medium: Photograph

Date: Dec  1969 (Created)

Original Summary:
Image shows the bedroom of Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, after his murder by Chicago police. Blood covers the bare mattress and there are numerous bullet holes in the wall. Books cover the floor. The book "Malcolm X Speaks" resides on the bed and a book entitled "Lenin" resides on the nightstand. 

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Forms: Snapshots

Subjects: Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations

Name As Subjects: Hampton, Fred; Black Panther Party; Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept.

Credits:
RoleName
CompilerBlackside, Inc.

Notes:
Other materials used in the exhibit, but not included in this record are: "Dutchman" film still: black and white; 8x10 in. (University Archives), Royal Shield hair product advertisement, "Ebony", Vol. XXVIII No.1, November, 1972 (Film Archive), "Gottschalk and the Grand Tarantell" by Gwendolyn Brooks and autographed for Henry Hampton (Film Archive), "We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold" by Faith Ringgold (Film Archive), "In the Mecca" by Gwendolyn Brooks (Olin Library), "Desegregating the Boston Public Schools: A Crisis in Civic Responsibility. A Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights" (Film Archive), "Southie Won't Go" by Ione Malloy (Olin Library), "Busing" by Thomas Cottle (Film Archive), "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr." by David J. Garrow. (Film Archive), "At the River I Stand" by Joan Turner Beifuss (Film Archive), "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X (Film Archive), Soledad brother : The Prison Letters of George Jackson" by George Jackson (Film Archive), "War at Home" by Brian Glick (Film Archive), "Up on Madison, Down on 75th Street" by J.F. Rice (Film Archive), "Brotherman" edited by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen (Film Archive), Martin Luther King, Jr : A Documentary, Montgomery to Memphis" edited by Flip Schulke (Film Archive), "A Pictorial History of Black Americans" by Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer and C. Eric Lincoln (Film Archive), "Poor People's Movements" by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward (Film Archive), "The Black Underclass" by Douglas G. Glasgow (Film Archive), "I Respectfully Disagree With the Judge's Order" by J. Michael Ross (Film Archive), "Schools on Trial" by Robert A. Dentler (Film Archive), "Malcolm X: The Great Photographs" by Thulani Davis (Film Archive), "Malcolm X: Make It Plain" by William Strickland (Film Archive), "Bearing the Cross" by David J. Garrow (Film Archive), "My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr." by Coretta Scott King (Film Archive), "A Time to Die" by Tom Wicker (Film Archive), "Ebony" November, 1972 and October, 1966 (Film Archive), Copy of a memo from the FBI, numbered CG 157-2209 (Film Archive), Copy of a memo from the FBI, 11/25/68 (Film Archive), Copy of a memo from the FBI, 1/13/69 (Film Archive), Program for Ninth Annual Ball and Banquet of  the Metro Atlanta Summit Leadership Congress, Inc. July 16, 1977 (Film Archive), Typescript of the Inaugural Address by Mayor Maynard Jackson, Atlanta, Georgia, January 7, 1974 (Film Archive).

Items x3

ItemDescription
6942-1Photographic : B&W Photographic Prints 
6942-2Photographic : B&W Photographic Print on Foam Core Board 
6942-3Photographic : B&W safety film negative 


Contained By x2

Title NoTitle
6734America at the racial crossroads exhibition, January-March 7, 2008
13527Eyes on the prize II [stock photos]