Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs
Grace Lee Boggs
	Boggs at her home in Detroit in 2012
Born	Grace Chin Lee; June 27, 1915; Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Died	October 5, 2015 (aged 100); Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Education	Columbia University (BA); Bryn Mawr College (MA, PhD)
Occupations	Writer; social activist; philosopher; feminist;
Political party	Workers Party (1941–1947); Socialist Workers Party (1947–1951); Correspondence Publishing Committee (1951– 1962);
Movement	Johnson–Forest Tendency (1941–1951)
Spouse	James Boggs (m. 1953; died 1993)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	陈玉平
Traditional Chinese	陳玉平
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chén Yù Píng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Can4 Juk6 Ping4

Grace Lee Boggs (June 27, 1915 – October 5, 2015) was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist.^[4] She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s.^[5] In the 1960s, she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years, took their own political direction.^[6] 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, with Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American, Black Power, and Civil Rights movements.

^ ^a ^b Ward, Stephen M. (editor), Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader, Wayne State University Press, 2011.
^ Cf. Worldcat catalog entry for Lee, Grace Chin. George Herbert Mead, New York, King's crown press, 1945.
^ Powell, C (2017). "In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs by Stephen M. Ward (review)". Labour / Le Travail. 80. Project MUSE: 343–346. doi:10.1353/llt.2017.0069. S2CID 149313553.
^ Michael Jackman (October 5, 2015). "Grace Lee Boggs dead at 100". Metro Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
^ Aguirre, Adalberto Jr.; Lio, Shoon (2008). "Spaces of Mobilization: The Asian American/Pacific Islander Struggle for Social Justice". Social Justice. Asian American & Pacific Islander Population Struggles for Social Justice. 35 (2): 1–17. JSTOR 29768485.
^ Elaine Latzman Moon,"Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community 1918–1967", Wayne State University Press, p. 156. Retrieved July 1, 2014.

[BOGGSREADER-1] Ward, Stephen M. (editor), Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader, Wayne State University Press, 2011.

[LOC-2] Cf. Worldcat catalog entry for Lee, Grace Chin. George Herbert Mead, New York, King's crown press, 1945.

[3] Powell, C (2017). "In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs by Stephen M. Ward (review)". Labour / Le Travail. 80. Project MUSE: 343–346. doi:10.1353/llt.2017.0069. S2CID 149313553.

[4] Michael Jackman (October 5, 2015). "Grace Lee Boggs dead at 100". Metro Times. Retrieved October 5, 2015.

[5] Aguirre, Adalberto Jr.; Lio, Shoon (2008). "Spaces of Mobilization: The Asian American/Pacific Islander Struggle for Social Justice". Social Justice. Asian American & Pacific Islander Population Struggles for Social Justice. 35 (2): 1–17. JSTOR 29768485.

[6] Elaine Latzman Moon,"Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community 1918–1967", Wayne State University Press, p. 156. Retrieved July 1, 2014.

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