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Martin Luther King Day Speaker:  (1/1)
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Grace Boggs
State: Confirmed
Time: Mon Jan 21 2013 04:15 PM  to  05:30 PM
Location:
JRC*101 Rosenfield Center 101
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Organization: ROSENFIELD_PROGRAM 
Requestor: Van Wyk, Laureen    641-269-4720 Click to create a vCard file to load into your address book 
Description: Click to generate a vCalendar file to import into your off-line calendar Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
Monday, January 21

Take time on the first day of classes to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with several very special all-campus events brought to you by the Rosenfield Program and the Office of Intercultural Engagement and Leadership:


4:15 p.m. “What Time Is It?: An Afternoon with Civil Rights Pioneer Grace Lee Boggs”
JRC 101

Everyone is welcome to attend this very special opportunity to meet Grace Lee Boggs in person. She will speak and answer questions.
Grace Lee Boggs is a civil rights pioneer and community organizer who has fought for social change in the United States since she earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1940. An associate of C.L.R. James, Malcom X, and many other civil rights leaders, Grace Lee Boggs did much of her important work with her late husband James Boggs, with whom she published Correspondence magazine in the 1950s. Born in 1915 to Chinese immigrant parents in Rhode Island, she allied herself to the cause of African-American equality, and has worked on behalf of women’s rights and many other causes for decades. Active in the Black Power movement in Detroit in the 1960s, Grace Lee Boggs continued her community organizing there throughout the 1970s and 80s. Since the 1980s, she has continued her activism on behalf of minority communities and low-income people, and she remains an important commentator on how to fight oppression. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including an autobiography and The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (2011).
 
 
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