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Image 5: Helen Zia,
Grace Lee Boggs, Judge Thomas Russell Jones
Grace
Lee Boggs is an activist, scholar, writer, community organizer and
speaker whose sixty years of political involvement encompass the
major U.S. political and social movements of this century: Labor,
Civil Rights, Black Power, Asian American, Women's and Environmental
Justice movements. Born in Providence, R.I. of Chinese immigrant
parents in 1915, Ms. Boggs moved to New York as a young girl. Her
father was the owner of a popular theater district restaurant called
Chin Lee's. She received a B.A. from Barnard College in 1935 and
her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. In the 1940's
and 1950's she worked with West Indian Marxist historian C.L.R.
James and in 1953 went to Detroit where she married James Boggs,
African American labor activist, writer and strategist. Together
they founded the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership (Detroit)
and spearheaded innumerable grassroots groups and projects. In 1998,
Ms. Boggs published her autobiography, "Living for Change", for
which actor Ossie Davis wrote the foreward.
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