Showdown in Desire
The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
294 pages
978-1-55728-933-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
?An illuminating look at the Black Panther Party's history in New Orleans, the turbulent racial climate of New Orleans in the 1960s, and the founding of the local party, which was committed to challenging discriminatory white political-power structures." ?Times-PicayuneMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Fayetteville
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
31 illustrations. photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55728-933-9 (9781557289339)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
04/2009
1st Edition
University of Arkansas Press
€27.99
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