GRACE LEE BOGGS
Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer and speaker whose more
than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major
U.S. social movements of this century: Labor, Civil rights,
Black Power, Asian American, Women's and Environmental
Justice.
Born in Providence, R.I. of Chinese immigrant parents in
l915, Grace received her B.A. from Barnard College in l935
and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in l940.
In the l940s and l950s she worked with West Indian Marxist
historian C.L.R.James and in l953 she came to Detroit where
she married James Boggs, African American labor activist,
writer and strategist. Working together in grassroots groups
and projects, they were partners for over 40 years until James
death in July l993. Their book, Revolution and Evolution in
the Twentieth Century, was published by Monthly Review
Press in l974.
In 1992, with James Boggs, Shea Howell and others, she founded
DETROIT SUMMER, a multicultural, intergenerational youth program
to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up, which
completed its 14th season in the summer of 2006. Currently she works
with the Detroit City of Hope campaign and the Beloved Communities
Initiative and writes for the weekly Michigan Citizen.
Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer and speaker whose more
than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major
U.S. social movements of this century: Labor, Civil rights,
Black Power, Asian American, Women's and Environmental
Justice.
Born in Providence, R.I. of Chinese immigrant parents in
l915, Grace received her B.A. from Barnard College in l935
and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in l940.
In the l940s and l950s she worked with West Indian Marxist
historian C.L.R.James and in l953 she came to Detroit where
she married James Boggs, African American labor activist,
writer and strategist. Working together in grassroots groups
and projects, they were partners for over 40 years until James
death in July l993. Their book, Revolution and Evolution in
the Twentieth Century, was published by Monthly Review
Press in l974.
In 1992, with James Boggs, Shea Howell and others, she founded
DETROIT SUMMER, a multicultural, intergenerational youth program
to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up, which
completed its 14th season in the summer of 2006. Currently she works
with the Detroit City of Hope campaign and the Beloved Communities
Initiative and writes for the weekly Michigan Citizen.