The paper and the image of what a "Panther" was drew members from all over.
“The word got around of the police coming out with a little tank. “Brother came up and he had a panther paper and I asked ‘man, where you get this paper from?’ He said, ‘man, there was some brothers on Canal Street selling these papers,’” Rahim remembered. The Panthers' ideals and methods broke away from the Civil Rights era of non-violence, but despite their militancy, they were well received in the Black community. “We went through Desire and anybody who lived through that period can attest to this: The safest time in their history of being in that project was when we was there,” Rahim said. How did that happen? And that confrontation, the first one at least, would come sooner rather than later. “They just had a shootout in LA. “We have a staff meeting at three in the morning saying that the police were getting ready to go down to Desire the Desire Housing Project to evict the members of the Black Panther Party that were illegally occupying the desire housing project,” Bob Tucker said. The place constantly flooded. But the New Orleans Chapter hadn't threatened any violence up until that point. “You almost had to.”. There were riots taking place all over the United States. That was the lingo of the time.”. “I was told that they didn’t hire n*****s as welders and I was fired on the spot.”. “And so they were prepared to do that.”. Today, there is nothing to remember what happened here on Piety Street. Just days before Fields and Howard were outed, the Landrieu administration met with the newly appointed police chief Clarence Giarusso after Clarence Broussard, a neighborhood grocer and owner of the building the Panthers were currently occupying, moved to have them evicted. Right. And so he helped me to understand what and how bad it was.”.
We helped them out,” Betty Ailsworth said. We're not going to let this happen.”, “You got like, over 400 people moving, like 400 like teenagers and stuff.
But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. “We started running the big time dope dealers out of there.”. “When we first came together. One of those communities was here in Desire, one of America's largest and poorest housing projects. But if you spoke to those living within the confines of Desire, they'd share stories of thousands of children skating on Christmas Day, turkey bowls, football games and sewing at the neighborhood community center. “It was suggested to the mayor that you've got to pull the cops out.”. It was black-owned stores and then they had entrepreneurs in the community,” he said. It followed a common theme with the Black Panthers. “So, we ultimately agreed that they would stay there for a little while and then they would voluntarily vacate.”. “High crime, crime rate. “In other words, if there was a group that's likely to attack police officers that got our undivided attention.”. “The black community at that point had begun to have some interest in the mayor's race. Malik Rahim said that you couldn’t just open a chapter of the Black Panthers. They were concerned about health care.
But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. We did have a lot of white people that did support us, but you wasn't hearing that.”. So much so, that Hoover pledged in 1969 to end the Party's existence. We did have a lot of white people that did support us, but you wasn't hearing that.”. You're not going to kill them. And I got curious about it and embedded in Desire after I met a guy named Henry Fagan … (Henry) just was the mayor of Desire. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. “Our racial attitudes were stagnant. Fifty years later, a shattered country began to piece itself together and those who were left with no hope somehow found hope again. He was full of rage and had lost hope, but a chance meeting on Canal Street would lead to the beginning of his chapter as the Louisiana Black Panther Party’s Head of Security. On September 15, 1970, one of America’s largest standoffs took place between the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party and multiple branches of law enforcement within the Desire housing projects in the city’s Ninth Ward. It even brought actress and activist Jane Fonda to the Desire neighborhood, "How can we, smug white people, say what they should do? When I asked how the National Committee to Combat Fascism ended up in the Desire Projects, I got a couple of answers. Funding for technical support provided by anonymous donors in memory of the Samuelson, Wolfson, and Fertel families. The place constantly flooded. With 12 defendents, Ernest Jones had 144 peremptory challenges.
They used to do morning patrol, evening patrol.”, “Well, this was the era of being black and proud. He was full of rage and had lost hope, but a chance meeting on Canal Street would lead to the beginning of his chapter as the Louisiana Black Panther Party’s Head of Security.
The NOPD and city administration made national headlines after the violent shootout with the NCCF.
“We didn't go around carrying big guns. It multiplied so that many, many whites were leaving the city and going to the suburbs,” Landrieu said. “Not everybody in the party was doing that,” he said.
The paper and the image of what a "Panther" was drew members from all over.
“The word got around of the police coming out with a little tank. “Brother came up and he had a panther paper and I asked ‘man, where you get this paper from?’ He said, ‘man, there was some brothers on Canal Street selling these papers,’” Rahim remembered. The Panthers' ideals and methods broke away from the Civil Rights era of non-violence, but despite their militancy, they were well received in the Black community. “We went through Desire and anybody who lived through that period can attest to this: The safest time in their history of being in that project was when we was there,” Rahim said. How did that happen? And that confrontation, the first one at least, would come sooner rather than later. “They just had a shootout in LA. “We have a staff meeting at three in the morning saying that the police were getting ready to go down to Desire the Desire Housing Project to evict the members of the Black Panther Party that were illegally occupying the desire housing project,” Bob Tucker said. The place constantly flooded. But the New Orleans Chapter hadn't threatened any violence up until that point. “You almost had to.”. There were riots taking place all over the United States. That was the lingo of the time.”. “I was told that they didn’t hire n*****s as welders and I was fired on the spot.”. “And so they were prepared to do that.”. Today, there is nothing to remember what happened here on Piety Street. Just days before Fields and Howard were outed, the Landrieu administration met with the newly appointed police chief Clarence Giarusso after Clarence Broussard, a neighborhood grocer and owner of the building the Panthers were currently occupying, moved to have them evicted. Right. And so he helped me to understand what and how bad it was.”.
We helped them out,” Betty Ailsworth said. We're not going to let this happen.”, “You got like, over 400 people moving, like 400 like teenagers and stuff.
But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. “We started running the big time dope dealers out of there.”. “When we first came together. One of those communities was here in Desire, one of America's largest and poorest housing projects. But if you spoke to those living within the confines of Desire, they'd share stories of thousands of children skating on Christmas Day, turkey bowls, football games and sewing at the neighborhood community center. “It was suggested to the mayor that you've got to pull the cops out.”. It was black-owned stores and then they had entrepreneurs in the community,” he said. It followed a common theme with the Black Panthers. “So, we ultimately agreed that they would stay there for a little while and then they would voluntarily vacate.”. “High crime, crime rate. “In other words, if there was a group that's likely to attack police officers that got our undivided attention.”. “The black community at that point had begun to have some interest in the mayor's race. Malik Rahim said that you couldn’t just open a chapter of the Black Panthers. They were concerned about health care.
But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. We did have a lot of white people that did support us, but you wasn't hearing that.”. So much so, that Hoover pledged in 1969 to end the Party's existence. We did have a lot of white people that did support us, but you wasn't hearing that.”. You're not going to kill them. And I got curious about it and embedded in Desire after I met a guy named Henry Fagan … (Henry) just was the mayor of Desire. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. “Our racial attitudes were stagnant. Fifty years later, a shattered country began to piece itself together and those who were left with no hope somehow found hope again. He was full of rage and had lost hope, but a chance meeting on Canal Street would lead to the beginning of his chapter as the Louisiana Black Panther Party’s Head of Security. On September 15, 1970, one of America’s largest standoffs took place between the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party and multiple branches of law enforcement within the Desire housing projects in the city’s Ninth Ward. It even brought actress and activist Jane Fonda to the Desire neighborhood, "How can we, smug white people, say what they should do? When I asked how the National Committee to Combat Fascism ended up in the Desire Projects, I got a couple of answers. Funding for technical support provided by anonymous donors in memory of the Samuelson, Wolfson, and Fertel families. The place constantly flooded. With 12 defendents, Ernest Jones had 144 peremptory challenges.
They used to do morning patrol, evening patrol.”, “Well, this was the era of being black and proud. He was full of rage and had lost hope, but a chance meeting on Canal Street would lead to the beginning of his chapter as the Louisiana Black Panther Party’s Head of Security.
The NOPD and city administration made national headlines after the violent shootout with the NCCF.
“We didn't go around carrying big guns. It multiplied so that many, many whites were leaving the city and going to the suburbs,” Landrieu said. “Not everybody in the party was doing that,” he said.
The paper and the image of what a "Panther" was drew members from all over.
“The word got around of the police coming out with a little tank. “Brother came up and he had a panther paper and I asked ‘man, where you get this paper from?’ He said, ‘man, there was some brothers on Canal Street selling these papers,’” Rahim remembered. The Panthers' ideals and methods broke away from the Civil Rights era of non-violence, but despite their militancy, they were well received in the Black community. “We went through Desire and anybody who lived through that period can attest to this: The safest time in their history of being in that project was when we was there,” Rahim said. How did that happen? And that confrontation, the first one at least, would come sooner rather than later. “They just had a shootout in LA. “We have a staff meeting at three in the morning saying that the police were getting ready to go down to Desire the Desire Housing Project to evict the members of the Black Panther Party that were illegally occupying the desire housing project,” Bob Tucker said. The place constantly flooded. But the New Orleans Chapter hadn't threatened any violence up until that point. “You almost had to.”. There were riots taking place all over the United States. That was the lingo of the time.”. “I was told that they didn’t hire n*****s as welders and I was fired on the spot.”. “And so they were prepared to do that.”. Today, there is nothing to remember what happened here on Piety Street. Just days before Fields and Howard were outed, the Landrieu administration met with the newly appointed police chief Clarence Giarusso after Clarence Broussard, a neighborhood grocer and owner of the building the Panthers were currently occupying, moved to have them evicted. Right. And so he helped me to understand what and how bad it was.”.
We helped them out,” Betty Ailsworth said. We're not going to let this happen.”, “You got like, over 400 people moving, like 400 like teenagers and stuff.
But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. “We started running the big time dope dealers out of there.”. “When we first came together. One of those communities was here in Desire, one of America's largest and poorest housing projects. But if you spoke to those living within the confines of Desire, they'd share stories of thousands of children skating on Christmas Day, turkey bowls, football games and sewing at the neighborhood community center. “It was suggested to the mayor that you've got to pull the cops out.”. It was black-owned stores and then they had entrepreneurs in the community,” he said. It followed a common theme with the Black Panthers. “So, we ultimately agreed that they would stay there for a little while and then they would voluntarily vacate.”. “High crime, crime rate. “In other words, if there was a group that's likely to attack police officers that got our undivided attention.”. “The black community at that point had begun to have some interest in the mayor's race. Malik Rahim said that you couldn’t just open a chapter of the Black Panthers. They were concerned about health care.
But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. We did have a lot of white people that did support us, but you wasn't hearing that.”. So much so, that Hoover pledged in 1969 to end the Party's existence. We did have a lot of white people that did support us, but you wasn't hearing that.”. You're not going to kill them. And I got curious about it and embedded in Desire after I met a guy named Henry Fagan … (Henry) just was the mayor of Desire. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. “Our racial attitudes were stagnant. Fifty years later, a shattered country began to piece itself together and those who were left with no hope somehow found hope again. He was full of rage and had lost hope, but a chance meeting on Canal Street would lead to the beginning of his chapter as the Louisiana Black Panther Party’s Head of Security. On September 15, 1970, one of America’s largest standoffs took place between the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party and multiple branches of law enforcement within the Desire housing projects in the city’s Ninth Ward. It even brought actress and activist Jane Fonda to the Desire neighborhood, "How can we, smug white people, say what they should do? When I asked how the National Committee to Combat Fascism ended up in the Desire Projects, I got a couple of answers. Funding for technical support provided by anonymous donors in memory of the Samuelson, Wolfson, and Fertel families. The place constantly flooded. With 12 defendents, Ernest Jones had 144 peremptory challenges.
They used to do morning patrol, evening patrol.”, “Well, this was the era of being black and proud. He was full of rage and had lost hope, but a chance meeting on Canal Street would lead to the beginning of his chapter as the Louisiana Black Panther Party’s Head of Security.
The NOPD and city administration made national headlines after the violent shootout with the NCCF.
“We didn't go around carrying big guns. It multiplied so that many, many whites were leaving the city and going to the suburbs,” Landrieu said. “Not everybody in the party was doing that,” he said.
In the meantime, Desire leaders expressed their disapproval of how the city handled the confrontation and the reason behind it all. It was poorly constructed. Jones was fairly new to New Orleans, but not to Louisiana.
“The only black judge at criminal court.
And a right to defend themselves if necessary. “The only thing that was challenging and that was being offered to young black men at that time was the military,” he said. "Well, if I if I could think about it, I could probably come up with some individual areas that I would redo in a different way," he said. For full functionality please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. “We were really young anywhere from 14-to-21, something like that,” Betty Ailsworth said. And then through your program, you showed your work within the community,” he said. While all three admit some of the stories about the living conditions of the Desire are very true, their memories growing up in the community are vastly different than the conditions described by the city and the Panthers. I’m a young man, 20-years-old, 21.
The paper and the image of what a "Panther" was drew members from all over.
“The word got around of the police coming out with a little tank. “Brother came up and he had a panther paper and I asked ‘man, where you get this paper from?’ He said, ‘man, there was some brothers on Canal Street selling these papers,’” Rahim remembered. The Panthers' ideals and methods broke away from the Civil Rights era of non-violence, but despite their militancy, they were well received in the Black community. “We went through Desire and anybody who lived through that period can attest to this: The safest time in their history of being in that project was when we was there,” Rahim said. How did that happen? And that confrontation, the first one at least, would come sooner rather than later. “They just had a shootout in LA. “We have a staff meeting at three in the morning saying that the police were getting ready to go down to Desire the Desire Housing Project to evict the members of the Black Panther Party that were illegally occupying the desire housing project,” Bob Tucker said. The place constantly flooded. But the New Orleans Chapter hadn't threatened any violence up until that point. “You almost had to.”. There were riots taking place all over the United States. That was the lingo of the time.”. “I was told that they didn’t hire n*****s as welders and I was fired on the spot.”. “And so they were prepared to do that.”. Today, there is nothing to remember what happened here on Piety Street. Just days before Fields and Howard were outed, the Landrieu administration met with the newly appointed police chief Clarence Giarusso after Clarence Broussard, a neighborhood grocer and owner of the building the Panthers were currently occupying, moved to have them evicted. Right. And so he helped me to understand what and how bad it was.”.
We helped them out,” Betty Ailsworth said. We're not going to let this happen.”, “You got like, over 400 people moving, like 400 like teenagers and stuff.
But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. “We started running the big time dope dealers out of there.”. “When we first came together. One of those communities was here in Desire, one of America's largest and poorest housing projects. But if you spoke to those living within the confines of Desire, they'd share stories of thousands of children skating on Christmas Day, turkey bowls, football games and sewing at the neighborhood community center. “It was suggested to the mayor that you've got to pull the cops out.”. It was black-owned stores and then they had entrepreneurs in the community,” he said. It followed a common theme with the Black Panthers. “So, we ultimately agreed that they would stay there for a little while and then they would voluntarily vacate.”. “High crime, crime rate. “In other words, if there was a group that's likely to attack police officers that got our undivided attention.”. “The black community at that point had begun to have some interest in the mayor's race. Malik Rahim said that you couldn’t just open a chapter of the Black Panthers. They were concerned about health care.
But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. We did have a lot of white people that did support us, but you wasn't hearing that.”. So much so, that Hoover pledged in 1969 to end the Party's existence. We did have a lot of white people that did support us, but you wasn't hearing that.”. You're not going to kill them. And I got curious about it and embedded in Desire after I met a guy named Henry Fagan … (Henry) just was the mayor of Desire. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. “Our racial attitudes were stagnant. Fifty years later, a shattered country began to piece itself together and those who were left with no hope somehow found hope again. He was full of rage and had lost hope, but a chance meeting on Canal Street would lead to the beginning of his chapter as the Louisiana Black Panther Party’s Head of Security. On September 15, 1970, one of America’s largest standoffs took place between the New Orleans chapter of the Black Panther Party and multiple branches of law enforcement within the Desire housing projects in the city’s Ninth Ward. It even brought actress and activist Jane Fonda to the Desire neighborhood, "How can we, smug white people, say what they should do? When I asked how the National Committee to Combat Fascism ended up in the Desire Projects, I got a couple of answers. Funding for technical support provided by anonymous donors in memory of the Samuelson, Wolfson, and Fertel families. The place constantly flooded. With 12 defendents, Ernest Jones had 144 peremptory challenges.
They used to do morning patrol, evening patrol.”, “Well, this was the era of being black and proud. He was full of rage and had lost hope, but a chance meeting on Canal Street would lead to the beginning of his chapter as the Louisiana Black Panther Party’s Head of Security.
The NOPD and city administration made national headlines after the violent shootout with the NCCF.
“We didn't go around carrying big guns. It multiplied so that many, many whites were leaving the city and going to the suburbs,” Landrieu said. “Not everybody in the party was doing that,” he said.
