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A less well-known victim of that raid was the 22-year-old, Peoria-born\u00a0Mark Clark, who had come to Chicago to attend an Illinois-wide meeting of party leaders.\u00a0On the night of the raid he was on security duty in the front room of Hampton&#8217;s apartment and was shot\u00a0in the heart when authorities stormed the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Mark was the brother of Richard Pryor&#8217;s close friend Matt Clark, and had been \u2014\u00a0at four years old\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the youngest member ever of Juliette Whittaker&#8217;s acting company,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1962\/11\/27\/the-enchanted-cage\/#menu-main-nav\">the Carver Players<\/a>. After working as a teenager with his family in the town&#8217;s local NAACP chapter, he had founded\u00a0the Peoria chapter of the Black Panther Party.<\/p>\n<p>John Gwynn, president of the Peoria and Illinois chapters of the NAACP, recalled that &#8220;all of the Clark brothers were participating. All were alert and pretty much read up on the issues.&#8221; He added that Mark &#8220;could call for order when older persons or adults could not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a nonconformist,&#8221; his sister Eleanor said. &#8220;He was the type of person who, regardless of whether anyone went along with his ideas&#8230;he was going to do what was right and appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Clark family was never notified by law enforcement officials of the shooting, according to the <em>Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, in a pre-dawn raid coordinated\u00a0by the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney Office, the Chicago police, and the FBI, was a major\u00a0incident\u00a0in the repression of the Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,400,244,24],"tags":[125,129,188,228,231,242,176,183],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1963-1969","category-3-riding-the-whirlwind","category-movement-radicalizes-and-splinters","category-segregation-desegregation","tag-1960s-civil-rights","tag-black-panther-party","tag-civil-rights-movement-in-peoria","tag-john-gwynn","tag-mark-clark","tag-matt-clark","tag-national-association-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people-naacp","tag-racism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Panther Clark Expected Death, Sister Reveals - Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1969\/12\/29\/panther-clark-expected-death-sister-reveals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Panther Clark Expected Death, Sister Reveals - Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The killing of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, in a pre-dawn raid coordinated\u00a0by the Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney Office, the Chicago police, and the FBI, was a major\u00a0incident\u00a0in the repression of the Black [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1969\/12\/29\/panther-clark-expected-death-sister-reveals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"1969-12-29T00:19:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-02-22T02:15:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/BRP.Cover_1-e1416970637481.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"120\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"179\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chamelion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chamelion\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1969\/12\/29\/panther-clark-expected-death-sister-reveals\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1969\/12\/29\/panther-clark-expected-death-sister-reveals\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chamelion\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/#\/schema\/person\/013e0ae5fbcae0912cf92c7dca1e6145\"},\"headline\":\"Panther Clark Expected Death, Sister Reveals\",\"datePublished\":\"1969-12-29T00:19:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-02-22T02:15:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1969\/12\/29\/panther-clark-expected-death-sister-reveals\/\"},\"wordCount\":252,\"keywords\":[\"1960s: Civil Rights\",\"Black Panther Party\",\"Civil Rights Movement in Peoria\",\"John Gwynn\",\"Mark Clark\",\"Matt Clark\",\"National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)\",\"racism\"],\"articleSection\":[\"1963-1969: Civil Rights Hits Peoria\",\"3. 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