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In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs (Justice, Power, and Politics)

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James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two in large part unsung but critically essential figures within the black freedom struggle. Born and raised in Alabama, James Boggs came to Detroit right through the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union activist. Grace Lee was once a Chinese American scholar who studied Hegel, worked with Caribbean political theorist C. L. R. James, and moved to Detroit to work toward a new American revolution. As husband and wife, the couple was once influential within the early stages of what would turn into the Black Power movement, laying the intellectual foundation for racial and urban struggles right through probably the most active social movement periods in latest U.S. history.
 
Stephen Ward details both the personal and the political dimensions of the Boggses’ lives, highlighting the important contributions these two figures made to black activist thinking. At once a dual biography of two an important figures and a vivid portrait of Detroit as a center of activism, Ward’s book restores the Boggses, and the intellectual strain of black radicalism they shaped, to their rightful place in postwar American history.

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