| Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans Contributor(s): Arend, Orissa (Author), Jones, Charles E. (Editor), Austin, Curtis J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1557288968 ISBN-13: 9781557288967 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 323.119 |
| LCCN: 2008046794 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.26" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |