Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and index.
Contents:
Bullets and breakfast on Piety Street. Desire and the Panthers -- The Panther, the mayor of Desire, and the mayor's special assistant -- Remembering and forgetting : what really happened -- The nuts and bolts of infiltration -- Moving the system -- The kidnapping of Ronald Ailsworth -- A pig or Officer Friendly? -- Just before the shootout -- The shootout -- After the shootout : New Orleanians speak out -- Desire heats up. The rematch -- This time we ain't movin' -- The massacre that almost occurred -- The day after the standoff, revelations in a pig's eye, kinship, and luck -- Double dirty tricks -- The year after : did the Panthers make a difference or were the people tricked as usual? -- Panthers and principles on trial : somebody has to not have fear -- Better off in the penitentiary -- Prisoners and those who love them. The escapees, now known as the Angola Three, and the Panthers : a long-term relationship -- The mayor goes to prison -- Geronimo ji Jaga -- Making sense of it. Where have all the Panthers gone? -- Grits, not guns : the Panther legacy -- And then came Katrina.
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