caption birth_place relatives name parents birth_date residence image article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
boggs at her home in detroit in 2012 providence , rhode island katherine 1920 -rrb- philip -lrb- brother -rrb- robert -lrb- brother -rrb- -lrb- harry -lrb- brother ; b. 1918 -rrb- sister -rrb- edward -lrb- brother ; b. grace lee boggs chin 1965 -rrb- lee -lrb- father ; b. 1870 ; d. 27 june 1915 detroit , michigan grace lee boggs 2012.jpg grace lee boggs
 grace chin lee writer , social activist , philosopher , and feminist barnard college -lrb- b.a. , 1935 -rrb-
grace lee boggs

grace lee boggs -lrb- born june 27 , 1915 -rrb- is an american author , social activist , philosopher , and feminist .
she is known for her years of political collaboration with c.l.r. james and raya dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s .
she eventually went off in her own political direction in the 1960s with her husband of some forty years , james boggs , until his death in 1993 .
by 1998 , she had written four books , including an autobiography .
in 2011 , still active at the age of 95 , she wrote a fifth book , `` the next american revolution : sustainable activism for the twenty-first century '' , co-written by scott kurashige and published by the university of california press .
