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Showdown in Desire : the Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arend, Orissa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Crimes against > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Black Panther Party > History.
Violence > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
Police-community relations > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
Public housing > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Bullets and breakfast on Piety Street
  • Desire and the Panthers
  • The Panther, the "mayor of Desire," and the mayor's special assistant
  • Remembering and forgetting : what really happened
  • The nuts and bolts of infiltration
  • Moving the system
  • The "kidnapping" of Ronald Ailsworth
  • A pig or Officer Friendly?
  • Just before the shootout
  • The shootout
  • After the shootout : New Orleanians speak out
  • pt. 2. Desire heats up
  • The rematch
  • This time we ain't movin'
  • The massacre that almost occurred
  • The day after the standoff, revelations in a pig's eye, kinship, and luck
  • Double dirty tricks
  • The year after : did the Panthers make a difference or were the people "tricked as usual"?
  • Panthers and principles on trial : "somebody has to not have fear"
  • "Better off in the penitentiary"
  • pt. 3. Prisoners and those who love them
  • The escapees--now known as the Angola Three--and the Panthers : a long-term relationship
  • "The mayor" goes to prison
  • Geronimo ji Jaga
  • pt. 4. Making sense of it
  • Where have all the Panthers gone?
  • Grits, not guns : the Panther legacy
  • And then came Katrina.