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Grace Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer and speaker whose nearly seventy years of political involvement encompass the major US social movements of the twentieth century. She is active in Detroit Summer, a multicultural, intergenerational youth program/movement to rebuild, redefine and respirit Detroit from the ground up. She writes a column in the weekly Michigan Citizen and does a monthly commentary on WORT-FM in Madison, Wisconsin. Her autobiography, Living for Change (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), is widely used in university classes on social movements, the history of Detroit and Asian-American studies.

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  • King's Legacy of Change

    January 15, 2008

    No single person can be the agent of change: the vision must come from all of us.

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