[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 25, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H5163-H5164]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 RECOGNIZING THE LEGACY OF JAMES BOGGS

  (Ms. TLAIB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pride and respect that I 
recognize the legacy of James Boggs, a worker and activist who played a 
pivotal role in labor organizing and the civil rights movement in the 
city of Detroit.
  James Boggs was born in Alabama in 1919. He eventually moved to 
Detroit where he became an auto worker. Active in his worker's union, 
Mr. Boggs was passionate about the political issues facing workers and 
African Americans. His experiences and increasing interest in far-left 
philosophies inspired him to pen ``The American Revolution: Pages from 
a Negro Worker's Notebook,'' his most well-known work.
  Mr. Boggs married Grace Lee in 1953. Their influence as a couple and 
individually had tremendous impact on the organizing community, drawing 
influence from global history and observations of the everyday 
struggles of people.
  Together, the Boggs' grassroots efforts to uplift voices of community 
members resulted in their founding of a summer leadership program. That 
legacy and that program lives on in The James and Grace Lee Boggs 
School in Detroit.

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  I am proud to acknowledge and uplift Mr. Boggs in many of his 
achievements as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birthday.

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