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American revolutionary, the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, directed and produced by Grace Lee ; producers, Caroline Libresco, Austin Wilkin

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American revolutionary, the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, directed and produced by Grace Lee ; producers, Caroline Libresco, Austin Wilkin

Language

eng

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videorecording

Main title

American revolutionary

Responsibility statement

directed and produced by Grace Lee ; producers, Caroline Libresco, Austin Wilkin

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Sub title

the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Summary

"What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American writer, activist, and philosopher in Detroit. Rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America's past and its potentially radical future. [This documentary presents] Boggs's lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond"--Container

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Let's go back 70 years -- Hegel/Party name/McCarthyism -- Becoming an activist -- Meeting James Boggs -- Martin and Malcolm -- 1967 rebellions -- Conversations in Maine -- Revolution -- Detroit's first Black mayor -- Re-examining MLK -- Detroit summer -- Asian American movement -- Conversation as activism -- Aging is not for sissies -- What time is it?

Technique

live action

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Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

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