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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Arend, Orissa
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, [2009]
Subjects:	Public housing > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. Police-community relations > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. Violence > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions > 20th century. African Americans > Crimes against > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 20th century. Black Panther Party > History. New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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
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
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
Making sense of it. Where have all the Panthers gone? ; Grits, not guns: the Panther legacy ; And then came Katrina.