Litigating the Black Panther Movement: The Assassination of Fred Hampton
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2018-04-24 12:15:00
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Litigating the Black Panther Movement: The Assassination of Fred Hampton
Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/litigating-black-panther-movement-assassination-fred-hampton
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University of Chicago Law School
blog@law.uchicago.edu
America/Chicago
public
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the public
Presenting student organizations: OutLaw Black Law Students Association American Constitution Society American Civil Liberties Union National Lawyers Guild
Presenting student organizations: OutLaw Black Law Students Association American Constitution Society American Civil Liberties Union National Lawyers Guild
Flint Taylor is a civil rights attorney who has litigated death penalty, police brutality, and wrongful convictions cases for 45 years. Mr. Taylor will be discussing one of his most NLG most famous cases: litigating the Fred Hampton civil rights suit. Fred Hampton was the Chairman of the Black Panther Party in Chicago and was killed by the Chicago Police Department in 1969--part of the lawsuit also uncovered the FBIs surveillance of the Panthers through the COINTELPRO program. You can read a brief account by Mr. Taylor about his involvement in the civil rights suit here.
Snail Thai will be served.