Slain author donald goines

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    Incident Location Date Description Sources James StrangSt. James Township1856-06-16Religious leader, successor to Joseph Smith, shot three times in the backFabian FournierBay Cityc. 1875Lumberjack killed by a blow to the head with a malletGaspar MilazzoDetroit1930-05-31Organized crime figure murdered at the Vernor Highway Fish Market Jerry BuckleyDetroit1930-07-23Radio commentator shot and killed after successful campaign to recall Detroit mayorTony ChebatorisMidland1937-09-29Bank robber who shot and killed a bystander while trying to escape; also the only man executed in MichiganCarson JamesClawson1950Former Marine sergeant killed his father and buried him beneath a cow shed in Troy TownshipShooting of Maurice ChenowethBig Bay1952-07-31Shooting defended by John D. Voelker and later the basis of Anatomy of a MurderMurder of Aziz HermizDetroit1956-02-10Chaldean-Assyrian grocer murdered by the wife's paramour, wife found not guilty due to insanityReggie HardingDetroit1972-09-02Detroit Pistons player shot in the headMurder of Dawn MagyarChapin1973-01-2720-year-old woman abducted from a shopping center and found dead in woodsJimmy HoffaBloomfield Township1975-07-30Former president of the Teamsters union disappeared from meeting with organized crime figures, body never discoveredRichard Frederick DixonCasco Township1976-01-09Convicted of 1971 hijacking of passenger flight from Detroit to Cuba and of 1976 murder of a South Haven police officerFrancine HughesDansville1977-03-09Woman set fire to bed, killing abusive ex-husband, found not guilty by reason of insanity, later made into book and TV movie The Burning BedEddie JeffersonDetroit1979-05-

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    From: Michael Marsh [mailto:mmarsh@chicagoreader.com]
    List Editor: "Alkalimat, Abdul" <AAlkali@UTNet.UToledo.Edu>
    Editor's Subject: Re: Donald Goines essay
    Author's Subject: Re: Donald Goines essay
    Date Written: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:30:17 -0500
    Date Posted: Sat, 15 Nov 2002 10:30:17 -0500
    The following essay will run in the November 15, 2002 issue of the Chicago Reader. If you want a hard copy mailed to you, please let me know. Enjoy!! By Michael Marsh (headline) Raw Power (sub head) The bloody tales of Donald Goines came straight from the streets--and from a burning desire to keep others from following his path of self-destruction. For much of the 1950s and '60s Donald Goines prowled the streets of Detroit as just another lowlife. He had seven children but never married. He used heroin, stole, gambled, pimped, and made bootleg whiskey. But his game wasn't smooth enough, and he served several prison terms. Then, inspired by a novel by a Chicago hustler, Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck, Goines began writing fiction. In the early 70s he completed 16 books, most of them violent, semiautobiographical accounts of crime in the hood. He'd achieved cult status by 1974, the year two gunmen murdered him and his common-law wife. At the funeral a relative put one of his books, Daddy Cool, on his chest, but just before the casket was closed someone stole it. Goines's mother said she hoped the thief would read it and learn something. Goines, who was only 36 when he died, achieved something that has eluded many more accomplished black authors, including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston-his popularity has never diminished. His publisher, LA-based Hollowa

    10. Daddy Cool: Donald Goines’S “Visual Novel”

    Nishikawa, Kinohi. "10. Daddy Cool: Donald Goines’S “Visual Novel”". The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings, Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press, 2015, pp. 215-234. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813572369-012

    Nishikawa, K. (2015). 10. Daddy Cool: Donald Goines’S “Visual Novel”. In F. Gateward & J. Jennings (Ed.), The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (pp. 215-234). Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813572369-012

    Nishikawa, K. 2015. 10. Daddy Cool: Donald Goines’S “Visual Novel”. In: Gateward, F. and Jennings, J. ed. The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press, pp. 215-234. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813572369-012

    Nishikawa, Kinohi. "10. Daddy Cool: Donald Goines’S “Visual Novel”" In The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings, 215-234. Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813572369-012

    Nishikawa K. 10. Daddy Cool: Donald Goines’S “Visual Novel”. In: Gateward F, Jennings J (ed.) The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press; 2015. p.215-234. https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813572369-012

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