The Murder of Fred Hampton: video questions, differentiated

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. Comprehensive, thorough, 18-minute documentary really drills down into the context, the cause, events and legacy. Includes contemporary sources and interviews with witnesses. Johnson’s Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow laws end. Persistent inequalities remain. Poverty, poor housing, and unemployment, poor political representation. Police violence, uprisings. Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Confrontations with police. Media coverage. “Ten Point Plan”. Local chapters, “survival programs.” Free breakfast for children. Fred Hampton’s career. Akua Njeri. Chicago. Richard J. Daley. Similar problems amongst diverse groups, the Rainbow Coalition – seen as a threat. FBI takes note. COINTELPRO: illegal tactics. Hampton arrested and released on bond. Police assault on Hampton’s home. Mark Clark killed, Brenda Harris shot, survivors arrested. Police cover-up. Cover-up exposed. FBI involvement. William O’Neal. Fred Hampton’s legacy, Black Panther “radical” policies now mainstream.

Watch the film on YouTube before showing. One instance each of “bullshit” and “shit”, but appropriate and justified in the context.

Find the film on YouTube by searching for “Why the US government murdered Fred Hampton”; link on TES in video preview.

15 questions for the 18-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

Have a look too at USA civil rights in the Cold War https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12846795

and How The Reconstruction Era Shaped Modern America https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12860151