Grace Lee Boggs
Author
1915 –
Who is Grace Lee Boggs?
Grace Lee Boggs is an author, lifelong social activist and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. She eventually went off in her own political direction in the 1960s with her husband of some forty years, James Boggs, until his death in 1993. By 1998, she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, co-written by Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press.
Her life is the subject of American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, released in 2013.
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- Born
- Jun 27, 1915
Providence - Also known as
- Grace Lee
- Spouses
- James Boggs
(1953 - 1993)
- James Boggs
- Nationality
- United States of America
- China
- Profession
- Education
- Bryn Mawr College
- Barnard College
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on July 23, 2013
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