Showdown in Desire - The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans (Hardcover)

This title offers a look back at a powerful moment in New Orleans' history. ""Showdown in Desire"" portrays the Black Panther Party in New Orleans in 1970, a year that included a shootout with the police on Piety Street, the creation of survival programs, and the daylong standoff between the Panthers and the police in the Desire housing development. Through interviews with Malik Rahim, the Panther; Robert H. King, Panther and member of the Angola 3; Larry Preston Williams, the black policeman; Moon Landrieu, the mayor; Henry Faggen, the Desire resident; Robert Glass, the white lawyer; Jerome LeDoux, the black priest; William Barnwell, the white priest; and, many others, Orissa Arend tells a nuanced story that unfolds amid guns, tear gas, desperate poverty, oppression, and inflammatory rhetoric to capture the palpable spirit of rebellion, resistance, and revolution of an incendiary summer in New Orleans.

General

Imprint:	University of Arkansas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	March 2009
Authors:	Orissa Arend
Foreword by:	Charles E. Jones
Introduction by:	Curtis J Austin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-1-55728-896-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
LSN:	1-55728-896-8
Barcode:	9781557288967

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