| Item Description: | The backbone of the march was the 3,500 people who made up the anti-imperialist "Fred Hampton Contingent" initiated by the October League, and named in honor of the fallen Black Panther liberation fighter who was murdered by the Chicago police in 1969. The Fred Hampton Contingent included the October League, the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC), Haitian Action Committee, Boston Area Youth Organization of Black Unity (YOBU), Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students, Science for the People, Hard Times, Eritreans for Liberation in North America, the Guardian newspaper, Boston Socialist-Feminist Organization, Struggle! newspaper, Atlanta Anti-Repression Coalition, and other independent groups. |
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