Showdown in Desire : The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans
| Autor: | Orissa Arend |
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African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions--20th century, Police-community relations--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century, African Americans--Civil rights--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century, African Americans--Crimes against--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century, Violence--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century, Public housing--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
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| Popis: | 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. |
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