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How Grace Lee and James Boggs Shaped Today's Racial Justice Movements

May 19, 2022
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This story is part of the May 19th Project, which promotes solidarity within Asian and Pacific Island communities and with all communities.

Grace Lee Boggs was a Chinese American civil rights activist whose work spanned over 70 years. Her activism was concentrated in Detroit, where she settled with her husband James Boggs, an African American activist. Learn more how their thinking and work helped indelibly shape our present-day movements for racial justice.

Grace Lee Boggs and James Boggs emerged in Detroit to lay the intellectual foundations for one of the most important movements for racial justice in the 20th century.

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