Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans by Orissa Arend, Charles E. Jones, Curtis J. Austin

Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans

Orissa Arend, Charles E. Jones, Curtis J. Austin

320 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced

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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 Des...

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