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pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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" -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. Making sense of it -- Where have all the Panthers gone? -- Grits, not guns : the Panther legacy -- And then came Katrina. |
