Sunday, August 5, 2012
Benjamin Brown, May 10, 1967
Benjamin Brown was a 21-year-old student activist and truck driver who was killed on May 11, 1967 in Jackson, Mississippi.
Spurgeon Winter, November 13, 1969
On November 13, 1969, a 19-year-old Black Panther named Spurgeon Winter was killed in a gun battle with police where 9 police officers were shot and Black Panthers were subsequently arrested after the shootout in Chicago, Illinois.
Mark Clark and Fred Hampton, December 4, 1969
Fred Hampton, a deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP, was killed in his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on December 4, 1969. Mark Clark, who was on security duty, was killed instantly while sitting in the front room of the apartment. Prior to their murders by police, Arthur Glen Morris and Anthony Coltrale, were murdered by police.
Leon 4X Ameer, March 13, 1965
Leon 4X Ameer, a top leader in Malcolm X's Organization of African Unity, died under suspicious circumstances after informing the FBI and others that his life was in danger and that he knew who killed Malcolm X. He was quoted as saying, "I have facts in my possession as to who really killed Malcolm X." Referring to the Chicago headquarters of the Nation of Islam, he declared, "The killers aren't from Chicago, they're from Washington." He had met with FBI days earlier and despite being in good health and a martial arts expert he was found dead at the age of 32.The coroner changed his autopsy report multiple times afterwards.
Louis Lomax, July 30, 1970
Louis Lomax died under mysterious circumstances when his brakes in his car failed in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on July 30, 1970. He was the first recognized African-American television journalist, and was also a book author who had been awarded a lucrative contract by FOX to make a film on slain Civil Rights leader Malcolm X. The FBI under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover had a 141 page file on Lomax.
Clinton Melton and Wife, December 8, 1955
Elmer Otis Kimball (also reported as Elmer Kimbell), who was a friend of one of Emmett Till's murderers J.W. Milam, murdered Clinton Melton and then nineteen days later Melton’s young wife was killed only a week before Kimball’s murder trial opened, after she had been trying to get justice for her husband's homicide in Glendora, Mississippi. Mrs. Melton was driven off the road and into a bayou, where she drowned a week before the trial. Her children who were in the car survived. (Mrs. Melton is pictured above with her children and assassinated Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers is seated on the right in the picture.)
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