“Grace Lee Boggs was both product and producer of an improbable history. “I grew up in New York as a first generation Chinese American in an all-Caucasian community with no role models,” she once told an audience. “So I realized… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote, Mead “urged… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Initially, she responded by turning inward, pondering questions about the meaning of life and her place in the world. This led her to the… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“In “Detroit Is Dynamite,” an August 1942 Life magazine article, Louis Martin and Ted Poston reported that 98.7 percent of all dwelling units in… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Jimmy and Grace returned to Detroit in late August, in time to participate in the final work to relaunch Correspondence. On September 21–22 the… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Thirteen million Negroes in America have never known three of the “Four Freedoms” which America is supposedly spreading to the rest of the world.… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“What are you complaining about? If they don’t want you over here, why don’t you go over on Hastings Street and get yourself something?”… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Jimmy likely wrote all three editorials, and one, titled “Who Is for Law and Order?” carried his byline. He argued that the spectacle, seen… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“She told him the origins of the “buck dance,” when “white people would come up and say ‘N____r, dance’, and then start shooting around… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“As a Chinese American growing up in a largely white world during the 1920s and 1930s, a sense of social marginalization marked her formative… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Grace Lee Boggs was both product and producer of an improbable history. “I grew up in New York as a first generation Chinese American… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“As an Asian American woman within black radical circles, Grace surely was anomalous, but this raised no significant concerns or barriers to her participation… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Under Weiss’s direction, Grace began to delve deeply into writings and ideas that would shape the rest of her life. To begin with, Weiss… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
