The former Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton, who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment has now been designated as a historical landmark.

A campaign to designate his home as a landmark has been underway since the release of the Academy Award-winning film “Judas and the Black Messiah” about Hampton and his death.

 

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