Civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs passed away on Monday, October 5, at the age of 100.
The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Grace Lee was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1915, was raised in New York City, and received a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. Based in Detroit, Michigan since the early 1950s, she married African American civil rights worker James Boggs in 1953, who became her partner in civil rights activities. The couple organized a civil rights march with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963, a Grassroots Leadership Conference with Malcom X (also in 1963), educated people on discrimination against African American factory workers, hosted study groups for activists that shaped Detroit leadership, and in 1992, developed the Detroit Summer neighborhood program for Detroit youth to connect to their community.
Read more about the life and legacy of Grace Lee Boggs here
You can learn more about Detroit civil rights work in the Civil Rights Digital Library at http://crdl.usg.edu/places/michigan/detroit_mich/
