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   Grace Lee Boggs, a longtime activist who was part of the labor,   
   civil rights, black power, women's rights and environmental   
   justice movements, died Monday at her Detroit home. She was 100.   
      
   Boggs and late husband James Boggs were involved in advocacy for   
   decades. She helped organize a 1963 march in Detroit by the Rev.   
   Martin Luther King Jr. and the November 1963 Grassroots   
   Leadership Conference in Detroit with Malcom X.   
      
   Her death was announced by the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center   
   to Nurture Community Leadership, which she set up after her   
   husband's 1993 death.   
      
   "Grace died as she lived surrounded by books, politics, people   
   and ideas," Alice Jennings and Shea Howell, two of her trustees,   
   said in a statement issued by the center.   
      
   In a statement released by the White House, President Barack   
   Obama said Boggs learned early that "the world needed changing,   
   and she overcame barriers to do just that."   
      
   "Grace dedicated her life to serving and advocating for the   
   rights of others - from her community activism in Detroit, to   
   her leadership in the civil rights movement, to her ideas that   
   challenged us all to lead meaningful lives," the president said.   
      
   The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Boggs was born in Rhode   
   Island in 1915 and grew up in New York City. After receiving a   
   doctorate in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in 1940, Boggs   
   worked at the University of Chicago's Philosophy Library.   
      
   Boggs moved back to New York to work with socialist theorist   
   C.L.R. James, helping create an offshoot of the Socialist   
   Workers Party that focused on race and poverty.   
      
   She moved to Detroit in the 1950s to write for a socialist   
   newspaper. That's where she met James Boggs, an African-American   
   man who would become her husband and collaborator. In the 1960s,   
   the couple became involved in the black power movement and were   
   known to offer Malcolm X a place to stay when he visited Detroit.   
      
   Their later work focused on Detroit's residents and   
   neighborhoods and included starting Detroit Summer, a program   
   for young people to work on community projects.   
      
   Boggs was the subject of a 2013 documentary, "American   
   Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs," that aired on   
   PBS.   
      
   http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/labor-civil-rights-activist-   
   grace-lee-boggs-dies-34270688   
               
      
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