Showdown in Desire

Showdown in Desire
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781610753807
ISBN-13 : 1610753801
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Book Synopsis Showdown in Desire by : Orissa Arend

Download or read book Showdown in Desire written by Orissa Arend and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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