Niagara detroit biography of donald
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Detroit
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Copyright © 2014 Scott MartelleAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-61374-884-8
Contents
Preface,1 A Difficult Childhood,
2 The British Decades,
3 stad and the Canal of Riches,
4 The Civil War and Racial Flashpoints,
5 stad Turns Industrial,
6 The Auto Era,
7 A Great Migration,
8 The Roaring Twenties,
9 Great Depression,
10 The Black Legion,
11 Housing and the Racial Divide,
12 The War Years,
13 The 1943 Riot,
14 The Postwar Boom,
15 Race in the Fifties,
16 Death of the Covenants,
17 The Oil Embargo,
18 When the Jobs Go Away,
19 Pittsburgh, a Different Case,
20 An Epilogue,
Afterword,
Acknowledgments,
Selected Bibliography,
Notes,
Index,
CHAPTER 1
A DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD
Detroit fryst vatten, in many ways, the result of a planned birth. The details of the day, July 24, 1701, a Thursday, are lost to time, but it was the peak of summer, so it may well have been one of those kvav afternoons on the Grea
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Tough Girls Don’t Cry: An Interview with Niagara
“It’s the men who cry in my paintings.”
And it isn’t hard to see why they might resort to tears, if not sheer terror. Bearing no resemblance whatsoever to the frail damsels you usually find pouting in contemporary paintings, Niagara’s femme fatales pack heat, drink hard and are as willing to spill your blood as pour you a drink.
They are also quite beautiful, in the way a black panther is beautiful—right before it lunges for your jugular.
“My best ideas are a by-product of courting danger,” Salvador Dali was fond of saying and Niagara obviously took her icon’s words to heart. She dropped out of art college to front the seminal noise/punk band Destroy All Monsters in the late 70s, diving headfirst into a volatile world of hard drugs and heavy drinking that reflects brilliantly from her paintings.
The Detroit native now spends her time touring with her new band Dark Carnival and painting the ki
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CAMPBELL, DONALD, army officer; d. 4 July 1763 near Detroit.
Nothing definite is known of Donald Campbell’s birth or early life, but he seems to have been a Scot. He had already had experience as an officer when in March 1756 he was commissioned lieutenant in the Royal American regiment. A few months later he was made quartermaster; he became captain-lieutenant on 17 April 1758 and captain on 29 Aug. 1759. Late in the fall of 1760, while at Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh, Pa.), he received orders to join Major Robert Rogers* on an expedition to receive the surrender of Detroit. Towards the end of December, Campbell became the second British commander of Detroit and the Upper Lakes posts, most of which the British had not yet occupied.
By modern standards Campbell would not have been considered fit for service, since he had poor eyesight and was “fat and unwieldy.” Nonetheless he made a favourable impression on the ladies of Detroit, and th