"It's people's basic right to protest," former Black Panther member Billy X. Jennings said during a day of celebrations at ...

The Illinois chapter's history with the party could be included in the National Register of Historic Places. A recent push to memorialize the Illinois Black Panther Party has stirred up a division ...

Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Fred Hampton ... markers are on display during a celebration kicking off the Black Panther Party Heritage Trail in Illinois hosted by the Historical Preservation Society ...

In the 1960s, the Church of the Epiphany in Chicago served as an organizing hub for the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Within its red-brown sandstone walls, members hosted free meals ...

Sign up here for the CityLab Daily newsletter. The walls of the Church of the Epiphany in Chicago are two feet thick, made of red-brown sandstone from the upper ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Events across the Chicago ... On Dec. 4, 1969, CPD and the FBI saw the then-deputy chairman of the National Black Panther Party as a threat, during the height of the civil rights ...

American political & social activist and Black Panther Party member Fred Hampton (1948 – 1969) raises his arms at the ‘Days of Rage’ rally, Chicago, Illinois, October 11, 1969. (Photo by ...

GUEST: Leila Wills, executive director, Historical Preservation Society of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party The Black ... Circa 1968. The Chicago Park District’s Night Out in ...

at the time one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Chicago. By 1968, the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black Panther Party, according to the Library of Congress ...

Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Locations in Chicago where the Black Panther Party offered medical care, free breakfast and day care in the late 1960s and early 1970s are ...

A man who shot a Chicago police officer almost 40 years ... smuggled gun into San Quentin prison in 1971 to inmate and Black Panther party member George Jackson, who instigated shootout in which ...