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Boggs, Grace Lee

LC control no.n 87122677
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingBoggs, Grace Lee
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Variant(s)Lee, Grace C. (Grace Chin)
Lee, Grace, 1915-2015
See alsoAlternate identity: Stone, Ria
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LocatedJackson Heights (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date1915-06-27
Death date2015-10-05
Place of birthProvidence (R.I.)
Place of deathDetroit (Mich.)
Profession or occupationHuman rights workers
Found innuc87-85220: Her Women and the movement ... 1978? (hdg. on WHi rept.: Boggs, Grace Lee; usage: Grace Lee Boggs)
NUCMC data from Wayne State Univ. Walter P. Reuther Lib. for Glaberman, M. Martin and Jessie Glaberman collection, 1939-1979 (Grace Lee Boggs, correspondent)
Conditions of peace, 1991: t.p. (Grace Boggs) p. 225 (activist, social critic, living in Detroit, Newsletter editor of Save Our Sons and Daughters)
Living for change, c1998: p.1 (b. Providence, R.I., 27 June 1915)
nuc87-91947: James, C.L.R. Facing reality, 1974 (hdg. on NNCU-G rept.: Lee, Grace Chin; usage: Grace C. Lee)
Biog. resource center, Sept. 22, 2009 (Grace Lee Boggs, Dr.; b. June 27, 1915, Providence, R.I.; Bryn Mawr Col, Ph. D., Philos, l940; activist, writer & speaker)
'Revolution as a New Beginning': an Interview with Grace Lee Boggs Web site, Sept. 22, 2009 (daughter of Chinese immigrants; b. 1915, Providence, R.I.; Ph. D. in philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1940; with her late husband, the African-American writer and activist Jimmy Boggs (1919-1993), she has been centrally involved in numerous grassroots organizations)
James and Grace Lee Boggs Center Web site, Sept. 22, 2009 (just celebrated Grace Lee Boggs 94th birthday this summer in Detroit; celebrated June 27, 2009)
Digital dissertations, Sept. 22, 2009 (Chin Lee, Grace, Ph. D., Bryn Mawr College, 1940--Social individualism)
Bryn Mawr College Web OPAC, Sept. 22, 2009 (Lee, Grace Chin--Social individualism [Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bryn Mawr College, 1940])
New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 6, 2015 (in obituary published Oct. 5: Grace Lee Boggs; b. Grace Lee, June 27, 1915, Providence, R.I.; grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens; m. James Boggs, 1953 (d. 1993); d. Monday [Oct. 5, 2015], Detroit, aged 100; one of the nation's oldest human rights activists, who waged a war of inspiration for civil rights, labor, feminism, the environment, and other causes for seven decades with an unflagging faith that revolutionary justice was just around the corner; author of George Herbert Mead : philosopher of the social individual (1945))
Encyclopedia of Trotskyism on line, viewed June 13, 2016: writers archive > Grace Lee Boggs (Grace Lee Boggs, 1915-2015; works written as Ria Stone or R. Stone; in obituary: b. June 27, 2015, Providence, R.I.; under her own pseudonym "Ria Stone" Grace soon emerged as a leading theorist of this group [the circle of CLR James])
Associated languageeng
Invalid LCCNn 87126954