Grace Lee Boggs (1915 - 2015)
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2 min readGrace Lee Boggs, a longtime activist who was part of the labor, civil rights, black power, women's rights and environmental justice movements, died Monday at her Detroit home, The Associated Press reported. She was 100.
DETROIT (AP) - Grace Lee Boggs, known as an international activist for justice, has died at her Detroit home. She was 100.
President Barack Obama released a statement, saying Boggs learned "the world needed changing, and she overcame barriers to do just that."
Her death Monday was announced by the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership.
Boggs and late husband James Boggs were involved in many causes, from civil rights to income equality. She helped organized a 1963 march in Detroit by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Boggs was born in Rhode Island and grew up in New York City. She moved to Detroit in the 1950s to write for a socialist newspaper. A 2013 documentary, "American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs," aired on PBS.
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