Grace Lee Boggs
American social activist, philosopher, feminist, and author (1915–2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Born | (1915-06-27)June 27, 1915 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. | ||||||||||
Died | October 5, 2015(2015-10-05) (aged 100) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||
Education | Columbia University (BA) Bryn Mawr College (MA, PhD) | ||||||||||
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Movement | Johnson–Forest Tendency (1941–1951) | ||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 陈玉平 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 陳玉平 | ||||||||||
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