There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Despite more than a dozen Panther arrests, a core group of armed Panthers living in a Desire apartment said they would fight to the last person to defend their “home” if the police interfered. Henry Faggen stood firmly in between. Their presence according those who lived in the community at that time, was very welcomed. The police had urinated in the refrigerator. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. 50 years ago the Black Panthers and New Orleans police had a major standoff in Desire It was the era of Black Power and The Panthers demanded decent … By 1970 Pratt had risen to become the party’s Deputy Minister of Defense.¹ Ji Jaga, like Malik Rahim, is a Vietnam veteran. Here is a sneak peek into the story. Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2015. The book deserves a wide audience.”. The “hero” status of the Panthers was increasing, and Desire residents were in a good mood. When Malik Rahim came out of Orleans Parish Prison in 1971 there was no person he trusted quite like Lolis Elie, one of the lawyers who had won an acquittal for the Panthers after eleven long months in OPP. Hoover wanted to shut us down by 1969. There was an unusually large crowd for PE this night, more than fifty. . 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. He had a maintenance man uniform in case anyone ever asked any questions, but no one did. One question that I still ponder is how these men triumphed against seemingly impossible odds. I met Linda Francis through Cecil Carter, who in 1970 was deputy director of the Human Relations Committee for the city of New Orleans and part of the team that Landrieu had... What was it like in and around Desire just before the cataclysmic shootout occurred? While serving as a paratrooper, he participated in a series of highly classified missions and received eighteen combat decorations. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. In 1970 the consciousness of Malik Rahim and many other black New Orleanians was changing. “These people [Panthers],” the Rev. It’s a gentle, honest, and empowering book of hope and love. In spite of continuous pleas from their attorneys that the bond was exorbitant, none of the Panthers charged with attempted murder went free. Hubbard remembered these calls: “This is so-and-so in apartment such-and-such. Giarrusso apparently wanted... On September 17, two days after the shootout, community leaders held a news conference to castigate the police, the city administration, and the news media for their handling of the “racial violence” earlier in the week. Many who attended had been in Desire in 1970 and had tried to forget the traumatic events. Distracted and Defeated: the rulers and the ruled, Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers, Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series), Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society, “An admirably researched manuscript that illuminates an important yet overlooked chapter of African American history in New Orleans.”. Please try again. 50 years ago the Panthers had a presence in the New Orleans community. By the time the Panthers were headquartered on Piety Street, Donald Guyton (later known as Malik Rahim) had become a regular at their meetings. 30 Black leaders share their true and hopeful stories of being born Black in America. While I slowly pieced together the New Orleans Panther events in my own mind, I developed an intense wish for my disparate sources to hear the powerful narrative from each other’s point of view. From time to time, the “haves” tamper with information. Cecil Carter was named deputy director of the Human Relations office. Here in Louisiana, particularly, every woman, whether young or old, lives in constant fear that her man or her brother or her father or son will be arrested and fed into the man-consuming gates of Angola State Penitentiary. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, JPASS®, Artstor®, Reveal Digital™ and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. The tear gas was thick. She has written for the Louisiana Weekly, the New Orleans Tribune, and the Times-Picayune. In yet another, even bigger, police-Panther confrontation, no one had been killed. It was a Monday, the night youth from the project and elsewhere gathered in and around Panther headquarters for Public Education (PE). Unable to add item to List. He followed Charles Elloie, who would later become a judge. Remaining in the apartment had become... A second miracle had occurred. Tropical Storm Zeta expected to reach Gulf Coast by Wednesday, Tropical Storm Zeta expected to reach Gulf coast by Wednesday, Cooler Sunday, watching for Zeta impacts later this week, Saints huge sack, Kamara, Callaway lead win over Panthers, President Trump releases video of '60 Minutes' interview, For transgender activists, election stokes hopes and fears, Author of 'Showdown in Desire' reflects on standoff between NOPD, Black Panthers. “The assault against us was an unrelenting campaign. All three men would be pivotal in the looming confrontation between the Panthers and city officials. The problems didn’t go away after the last group of Panthers was ousted from Desire in the post-midnight arrest on Thanksgiving of 1970. Somebody came in and ate up our liver cheese—made a sandwich and drank up all the Barq’s Red.” Another call: “They ate all my bologna.” Somebody else called... On the fifth and sixth days after the standoff, the police pulled what many considered to be two dirty tricks. Bob Tucker and Henry Faggen had come to know each other through Tucker’s research for his study of Desire. After 30 years, is going home and facing him her only path to freedom? Perhaps I listened more as a mediator (my primary calling) and a psychotherapist than as a journalist. You do not have access to this But in the morning, the police plan started to roll. Moving, informative, and in places side-splittingly funny, Showdown in Desire restores to Technicolor memory a chapter of civil rights history too often neglected. This is a superbly written and elegantly documented/researched story of a much overlooked saga in recent American history. 50 years ago the Black Panthers and NOPD had a 30-minute shootout. The bail, set by Judge Bernard J. Bagert, owner of the St. Thomas Street house that was the first Panther headquarters, was $100,000 apiece. The shooting had stopped, and his fellow Panther Charles Scott had instructed Guyton to go room to room and shout back who was injured and who was dead.... Donald Guyton’s and Henry Faggen’s families had known each other since Guyton was a child. Black Panther Shootout in Desire Project New Orleans - YouTube The evictions from St. Thomas and from Piety Street had only increased the Panthers’ determination not to be evicted from Desire. But Elie convinced him to do just that, promising that he would get him out soon. Thirty-three years later, they would be together again, telling the story at a public forum. This fear is real; this fear is justified. . Before he was arrested, Ailsworth was a strong supporter of the survival programs, especially the free breakfast for school children. But Althea Francois and several other Panthers had gone straight back to the Piety House after the shootout as soon as her mother and Malik’s mother had picked up the kids. It is the knowledge that if her son shows the spirit and will to resist slavery, then his death by the hands of the racist ruling class is inevitable. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. In "The Story Behind the Standoff" you will hear from some of those involved about what happened in the Desire 50 years ago and implications it has on the city today. University of Arkansas Press; 1st Edition (February 3, 2010). For their part, the Panthers had had enough of pretending they did not know that... After the undercover cops escaped and after several people in Desire were wounded by snipers during the night, after the white couple and attorneys Ernest Jones and Robert Glass had gone home, there was a lull in the shooting for several hours. American Book Award winner, Black against Empire provides an ultimate overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. Together, we can solve this. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. The forum was another of Bob’s brilliant ideas. The Journey Begins: Lessons Learned In The Wilderness (Book 1). There seem to be as many stories as there were people down there that night. It was a Tuesday, November 17, when the men of the cloth realized that the Panthers could not be “negotiated out” of Desire. 50 years ago the Black Panthers and New Orleans police had a major standoff in Desire In 1966 the Black Panther Party for Self Defense came to life in Oakland, California. RELATED: Author of 'Showdown in Desire' reflects on standoff between NOPD, Black Panthers. The NOPD was only about 15 percent black in the late 1960s, but Williams’s draft number was ten, and he didn’t want to fight in Vietnam.

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