Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs (* June 27, 1915 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, USA) is an American writer, life-long anti-racist civil rights activist and feminist. She worked politically in the 1940s and 1950s along with CLR James and Raya Dunayevskaya. In the 1960s, they slapped together with her husband James Boggs († 1993) a own political direction.

Biography

Grace Lee Boggs was born as the child of Chinese immigrants. In 1935 she achieved the degree of B. A. Barnard College and in 1940 the title of Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College. In 1954 she came to Detroit, where she married the African American trade unionists James Boggs. Together they worked in grassroots groups and projects and publish in 1974 the book Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century.

In 1992, she founded, inter alia, with Shea Howell multicultural intergenerational program "Detroit Summer" in order to build from scratch on new Detroit to redefine and revitalize with a new spirit. 2006 had its 14th iteration. In the same year she worked with the Detroit City of Hope campaign and the Beloved Communities Initiative and wrote for the weekly Michigan Citizen.

Her autobiography Living for Change (Minnesota 1998) is often used as a textbook for Asian American Studies, Detroit Regional Science and social history.

Awards (selection)

Bibliography

• Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century. (with James Boggs ). (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974 ).
• Women and the Movement to Build a New America (Detroit: National Organization for an American Revolution, 1977).
• Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nation 's Future (with James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine ). (Boston: South End Press, 1978 ).
• Living for Change: An Autobiography ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998).