Officers opened fire with rifles, a submachine gun, shotguns, and handguns, killing Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and fellow party member Mark Clark and wounding four other Panthers. Campbell-Kendrick, who joined the Black Panther Party in Chicago in 1969 after growing up in Mississippi, recalled the morning of the raid. “There was no way that you were going to kill Fred Hampton without knowing that you were in a vicious battle,” Rush said. Both Taylor and Rush credited organizing by the Panthers and the Black community with helping remove Hanrahan from office. Taylor said that defeat helped set the stage for Harold Washington’s election as Chicago’s first Black mayor a decade later.