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Author Arend, Orissa

Title Showdown in Desire : the Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans
Published Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Preface""; ""I. Bullets and Breakfast on Piety Street""; ""1. Desire and the Panthers""; ""2. The Panther, The “Mayor of Desire, � and the Mayor�s Special Assistant""; ""3. Remembering and Forgetting ""; ""4. The Nuts and Bolts of Infiltration""; ""5. Moving the System""; ""6. The “Kidnapping�of Ronald Ailsworth""; ""7. A Pig or Officer Friendly?""; ""8. Just before the Shootout""; ""9. The Shootout""; ""10. After the Shootout""; ""II. Desire Heats Up""; ""11. The Rematch""; ""12. This Time We Ain�t Movin�""
""13. The Massacre that Almost Occurred""""14. The Day after the Standoff, Revelations in a Pig�s Eye, Kinship, and Luck""; ""15. Double Dirty Tricks""; ""16. The Year After""; ""17. Panthers and Principles on Trial""; ""18. “Better Off in the Penitentiary�""; ""III. Prisoners and Those Who Love Them""; ""19. The Escapees�Now Known as the Angola Three�and the Panthers""; ""20. “The Mayor� Goes to Prison""; ""21. Geronimo ji Jaga""; ""IV. Making Sense of It""; ""22. Where Have All the Panthers Gone?""; ""23. Grits, Not Guns""; ""24. And Then Came Katrina""; ""Epilogue""
""Acknowledgments""""Appendix A. Cast of Characters""; ""Appendix B. October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program""; ""Appendix C. Eight Points of Attention""; ""Appendix D. Three Main Rules of Discipline""; ""Chronology""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Suggested Reading and Viewing""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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Subject Black Panther Party -- History
SUBJECT Black Panther Party. fast (OCoLC)fst00547265
Subject 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
Police-community relations -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
Public housing -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
Violence -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Crimes against.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Police-community relations.
Public housing.
Race relations.
Violence.
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Jones, Charles E
Austin, Curtis J
ISBN 9781610753807
1610753801