Detroit elder activist Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is an author, lifelong social activist and feminist.
As a result of their activism on tenants' rights, she joined the far left Workers Party (US.
She also translated into English many of the essays in Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 for the first time.
She married African American auto worker and political activist James Boggs in 1953 with whom she politically collaborated for decades and moved to Detroit in the same year. Detroit would be the focus of her activism for the rest of her life.
She founded Detroit Summer, a multicultural intergenerational youth program, in 1992 and has also been the recipient of numerous awards. As recently as 2005, she continued to write a column for the Michigan Citizen newspaper.