[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 110 (Friday, June 28, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E867]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                 RECOGNIZING THE LEGACY OF JAMES BOGGS

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                           HON. RASHIDA TLAIB

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 28, 2019

  Ms. TLAIB. Madam 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 workers 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 a tremendous impact on the organizing community, 
drawing influence from global history and observations of the everyday 
struggles of people. Together the Boggs's grassroots efforts to uplift 
voices of community members resulted in their founding of a summer 
leadership program. That legacy and program lives on in the James and 
Grace Lee Boggs School in Detroit.
  I am proud to acknowledge and uplift Mr. Boggs's many achievements as 
we celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of his birthday.

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