In the 1960s she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years (he died in 1993), took their own political direction.
در دهه ۱۹۶۰ او و همسرش جیمز بوگز (درگذشت در ۱۹۹۳)، فعالیت سیاسی خود را آغاز کردند که حدود چهل سال ادامه داشت.