[lbo-talk] In Memory of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Wed Dec 3 19:39:19 PST 2008


And let me speak to the yet unknowing world

How these things came about...

Carrol Cox wrote:
> Fred Hampton, August 30, 1948 December 4, 1969
> Vice-Chairman, Illinois Black Panther Party
>
> Mark Clark, June 28, 1947 December 4, 1969
> Peoria Chapter, Black Panther Party of Illinois
>
> Murdered December 4, 1969 by Chicago Police under the direction of the
> Cook County States Attorney, instigated by the FBI.
>
> For he was likely, had he been put on,
> To have prov'd most royal . . . .
>
> Carrol Cox
>
> =====
>
> Lest it pass with day's news:
>
> Mark Clark was born on June 28, 1947, in Peoria, Illinois, to Elder
> William Clark and Fannie Bardley Clark. He became active in the National
> Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at an early
> age and joined in demonstrating against discrimination in employment,
> housing and education.[1] According to John Gwynn, former President of
> state and local chapters of the NAACP, Mark Clark and his brothers
> played a major part in keeping other teenagers in line. "He could call
> for order when older persons or adults could not," he said of Mark in a
> December 1969 interview with the Chicago Tribune. Family members say
> Mark Clark enjoyed reading and art and was good at drawing portraits.[2]
> He attended Manual High School and Illinois Central Junior College in
>
> http://www.remembermarkclark.com/
>
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