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Carl Hampton (Cairo United Front photographer)

Full name:Carl Hampton
Era:1970s
State:Illinois
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Biography

Carl Hampton is named as a United Front photographer arrested in Cairo on August 15, 1970 after being physically accosted by white people. No charge is specified for this arrest. This photographer is distinct from the Houston People’s Party II leader Carl Hampton, who had already been killed on July 26, 1970. The United Front of Cairo chronology presents these prosecutions as part of racist repression of Black community organizing. This is the defense publication’s account; it does not establish an individual final discharge or a complete custody duration. Source: Right On!, April 3, 1971, PDF page 17. https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/BPP_Intercommunal/513.Black%20Panther%20%28New%29%20Intercommunal%20News%20Service.The_Black_Panther_1971.pdf#page=17

Case

Charges: Arrest after an attack on a Cairo United Front photographer; charge unprinted
Arrested: Aug 15, 1970
Sentence: Exact sentence, physical release date and complete time served are not established by this source.