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Hampton and pediatrician Benjamin Spock (right) at a protest rally outside the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago, October 1969. By AP Wirephoto - Chicago Tribune (direct link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128481751

Today in #LaborHistory 8/30/1948: #FredHampton was born. #Blackpanthers. Antiracist, anti-capitalist #RainbowCoalition with Black Panthers, #YoungPatriots & #YoungLords. Murdered by #Chicago #police & #FBI in 1969. For more on Young Patriots, read Hillbilly Nationalists by Amy Sonnie & James Tracy.

On this date 1919: Racist #Riots in #Chicago. Racial tensions continued for decades, but there was also #solidarity & organizing in 1960s-1970s. #RainbowCoalition= #YoungPatriots + #BlackPanthers + #YoungLords.

@jtofthebay.bsky.social & Amy Sonnie write about this history in Hillbilly Nationalists

Poster for the United Front Against Fascism conference. Shows image of an African American man, bloodied, being arrested. By Black Panther Party - Oakland Museum of California, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58017975

Today in #LaborHistory 7/181969: #BlackPanthers held United Front Against #Fascism conference, #Oakland, #California, along with Puerto Rican activist group, #YoungLords & #workingclass, largely Appalachian, white activist group, #YoungPatriots to promote #revolutionary class #solidarity.