The Panthers, he said, considered an event successful if 200 people show up. This was a congregation of thousands, Rush added. The whole church was full, standing room only.” “I went to the rally, sat in the back, and I was astounded. “I’ll never forget at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church when Congressman Metcalfe called a rally on a Sunday afternoon to talk about what the police had done,” Rush said. The two white policemen who stopped allegedly “roughed him up.” When the friend, Herbert Odom, complained about the treatment, he was arrested.
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Ralph Metcalfe (D-Ill.) was stopped for not having a light over his license plate. In the early 1970s, a friend of Rush’s apprentice Rep. Still, it was Rush’s work with the Black Panthers that eventually set him down the path to run for Congress. Edgar Hoover’s assertion, the Black Panther Party did not pose a real threat to America’s national security - only to the status quo of white supremacy.” “In the past year and a half, our nation has finally started to recognize and reckon with longstanding abuses in policing and surveillance that have been perpetrated against Black communities for decades,” Rush said.
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In 2021, Rush introduced the COINTELPRO Full Disclosure Act, legislation that would force the government to reveal decades-old FBI files about domestic spying on civil rights activists. After Hampton’s assassination, Rush became the acting chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Rush was meant to be in the apartment at the time, he told Esquire in June. 4, 1969, Hampton, along with fellow Panther Mark Clark, was murdered when Chicago law enforcement burst into their West Side apartment and opened fire. The FBI’s domestic counterintelligence operation, called COINTELPRO, would lead to a predawn attack on the Chicago Panthers. Edgar Hoover to be the ‘greatest threat’ to America’s internal security,” Rush continued, noting he was among the members “subjected to a relentless campaign of surveillance and political repression.” “For that, we were deemed by FBI Director J. “In a nation that had long devalued Black people and rejected Black power, the Panthers preached Black pride and self-determination, defense against police brutality, and economic security for Black America,” Rush wrote in an op-ed last year. Rush co-founded the chapter with Fred Hampton and served as defense minister, coordinating projects to boost support for the group throughout the Black community.
That year, the Black Panther Party of Chicago was born. 23, 1946, Rush’s family moved to Chicago in 1953. Born in segregated Albany, Georgia, on Nov.
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