The Black Panther Party galvanized millions of African Americans against police repression and brutality, upholding the right of armed self-defense. The government lauched a campaign of murder, jailings and disinformation to destroy the BPP. This film documents the 1969 Chicago police murder of one of the most charissmatic and effective Panther leaders, Illinois Party chapter chairman Fred Hampton.
Digitally restored. Includes a booklet by Mike Gray and the short documentary Cicero March (Chicago Film Group, 1967, 7 mins.), which chronicled a group of civil rights protesters who defied Mayor Richard J. Daley's order to not march in the predominantly white suburb, Cicero, IL.
