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Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs

by M Mangal

Love, partnership, and activism in Detroit

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Love, partnership, and activism in Detroit

James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs came from different backgrounds and found both a shared life and a shared political purpose in Detroit. Their story connects civil rights organizing with struggles over work, housing, food, and the shape of city life. The description presents their activism as collective: the couple worked alongside others across the second half of the twentieth century, building a partnership rooted in efforts to improve conditions for their communities. Love for people and place is the guiding idea linking the book’s account of their lives and work.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Ages 9–12 interested in civil rights and activism
  • Young readers exploring labor, housing, and community organizing
  • Readers curious about James and Grace Lee Boggs and Detroit

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Civil rightsPartnershipCommunity activismLabor and housingLove of place

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Book overview

Revolutions are made out of love for people and for place.

This was a core belief of activists and married couple James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs. James Boggs was a worker from rural Alabama in the segregated South. Grace Lee Boggs was a philosopher from urban Rhode Island and New York City. Both found their life's work, and each other, in Detroit. James and Grace were drawn to civil rights--and the labor, social, and political organizations through which people struggled for better living conditions for all.

What they created together was more than a marriage, it was a partnership. They fought with others for fair housing, jobs, food, labor unions, urban gardens, and more to make the world a better place for all. Their wide-ranging activism spanned the second half of the twentieth century. Authors Sun Yung Shin and M

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