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Jun 16, 2013 · This is a documentary on Grace Lee Boggs, one of the most significant US activists of the 20th century, a Chinese-American who devoted much of her life to the Black Power movement and to the city of Detroit.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Grace Lee
- 2013-06-16
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs is a 2013 American biographical documentary film directed by Grace Lee . Synopsis. Filmmaker Grace Lee tracks the evolving beliefs and activism of philosopher Grace Lee Boggs. Viewers learn about Boggs' activist contributions in Detroit and her involvement in the Black Power movement. [2]
American Revolutionary | The evolution of Grace Lee Boggs. “raises meaningful questions and keeps them profitably open” New York Times. “One of our best documents of the civil rights era” the Village Voice. News. Rest in Power, Grace Lee Boggs. 1915-2015.
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The documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, plunges us into 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.
Nov 15, 2018 · Filmed over the course of 12 years, the documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs probes and illustrates the factors that motivated Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese American woman born to a middle-class family, to become a Marxist philosopher and social activist.
- Wanda Parham-Payne
In Detroit, a 97-year-old Chinese-American woman has immersed herself in social activism for more than 70 years.
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- Documentary, Biography
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs” is a 2013 American documentary film that was directed by Grace Lee. The influential Asian-American author and social activist Grace Lee Boggs rose to prominence in the 1940s-1950s, when she advocated a Marxist-type Communist revolution in the USA.
