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“There was no assistance from the system. After an honorable discharge and a hard time finding work in California, Rahim returned to New Orleans. Desire residents would say they were playing the best game they could, with the cards they were dealt. And one of the party principles that we understood perfectly was that they would defend themselves if attacked,” Jones said. But because there was no other housing at that point in that area for blacks became occupied.”, In 1971, Johnny Jackson told the Times-Picayune "12,000 people lived in Desire and about 8,000 of them are under 18-years old.". Charlie Elloie …. Fifty years ago, that perceived threat would spread to the city of New Orleans and eventually to a long and violent standoff with police. But they really were a positive role model.”. You had to work in the community first. “It was suggested to the mayor that you've got to pull the cops out.”.

“We just set up, like our children,  milk and meals before they went to school, especially from kindergarten to third grade.”. 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. Not here,” Larry Preston Williams said. Ailsworth says he co-founded the chapter here in New Orleans with Steve Green. Betty Ailsworth was with the remaining members inside the apartment on Desire Parkway.
That was actually the case as we dug deeper into this story.

The Hope Six grant led to demolition of housing projects across the city. “And they say, no, you can't kill them.

I was doing that during the march on Selma.”. It was he and the former lieutenant governor. But the fact of the matter was, they were still in Desire and the city still wanted them out. The Desire Projects once isolated and ignored had suddenly found themselves in the national spotlight. We had neighborhood drug stores inside the community.”. “It was like Desire was like a city within a city.

I told the Mayor that was not going to work.”, “Because I was a Black man.

They needed our assistance where we could give it to them,” Betty Ailsworth said. “And I later learned it was Moon Landrieu, didn't speak, didn't say anything. The Black Panthers set up a New Orleans chapter in 1970 by establishing themselves in the Desire Housing Projects which lasted for about three months. But according to the Panthers, their infiltrators were outed long before initial confrontation with police. Malik Rahim said that you couldn’t just open a chapter of the Black Panthers.

We had neighborhood drug stores inside the community.”. You know, that we had two police in our midst.”, “They let them out the door and the people had them,” Ronald Ailsworth said. “I think that because of the influences from the media made it seem like they were doing such horrible things.

But the New Orleans Chapter hadn't threatened any violence up until that point. Founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in … You know, that we had two police in our midst.”, “They let them out the door and the people had them,” Ronald Ailsworth said.
"It's ironic that its happening again, 50 years later," Malik Rahim said.

“It was built on a dump. Stories of violence and drugs would paint a picture of Desire that forced outsiders to fear the community. While at Orleans Parish Prison, Ronald's fingerprints matched a bank robbery that happened on Jefferson Avenue. 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. https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1428. “We had a party of workers who were making money.”. “I think the Panthers made a big difference in the community and I don't think people gave them the credit that they rightfully deserve for doing what they did at the time they did it,” Leonard Smith III said. “Deplorable.

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