Showdown in Desire [electronic resource] : the Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans / by Orissa Arend.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arend, Orissa
Language:English
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, c2009.
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Variant Title:
Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans
Format: Electronic eBook

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260 |a Fayetteville :  |b University of Arkansas Press,  |c c2009. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a African Americans  |x Civil rights  |z Louisiana  |z New Orleans  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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650 0 |a African Americans  |z Louisiana  |z New Orleans  |x Social conditions  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Violence  |z Louisiana  |z New Orleans  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Police-community relations  |z Louisiana  |z New Orleans  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Public housing  |z Louisiana  |z New Orleans  |x History  |y 20th century. 
651 0 |a New Orleans (La.)  |x Race relations  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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