Showdown in Desire
Subtitle: the Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans
By: by Orissa Arend.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781557288967
Subjects: Black Panther Party -- History.; 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.; 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Bullets and breakfast on Piety Street; title: Desire and the Panthers; title: The Panther, the "mayor of Desire," and the mayor's special assistant; title: Remembering and forgetting : what really happened; title: The nuts and bolts of infiltration; title: Moving the system; title: The "kidnapping" of Ronald Ailsworth; title: A pig or Officer Friendly?; title: Just before the shootout; title: The shootout; title: After the shootout : New Orleanians speak out; title: pt. 2. Desire heats up; title: The rematch; title: This time we ain't movin'; title: The massacre that almost occurred; title: The day after the standoff, revelations in a pig's eye, kinship, and luck; title: Double dirty tricks; title: The year after : did the Panthers make a difference or were the people tricked as usual?; title: Panthers and principles on trial : somebody has to not have fear; title: Better off in the penitentiary; title: pt. 3. Prisoners and those who love them; title: The escapees-now known as the Angola Three-and the Panthers : a long-term relationship; title: "The mayor" goes to prison; title: Geronimo ji Jaga; title: pt. 4. Making sense of it; title: Where have all the Panthers gone?; title: Grits, not guns : the Panther legacy; title: And then came Katrina; title: Appendix A: Cast of characters; title: Appendix B: October 1966 Black Panther Party platform and program; title: Appendix C: Eight points of attention; title: Appendix D: Three main rules of discipline; title: Chronology.