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American revolutionary : the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Title
American revolutionary : the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs / directed and produced by Grace Lee ; producers, Caroline Libresco, Austin Wilkin.
ISBN
9780989972604
0989972607
9780989927611
098992761X
Publication
[United States] : LeeLee Films, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2013.
Includes trailer.
Editor, Kim Roberts; cinematography, Jerry A. Henry, Quyen Tran; music by Vivek Maddala.
In English; Spanish subtitles; closed captioned.
Summary
"What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American writer, activist, and philosopher in Detroit. Rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America's past and its potentially radical future. [This documentary presents] Boggs's lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond"--Container.
Variant and related titles
Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 22, 2015
Credits
Editor, Kim Roberts; cinematography, Jerry A. Henry, Quyen Tran; music by Vivek Maddala.
Cast
Grace Lee Boggs, Danny Glover, Bill Ayers, Angela Davis, Julia Putnam.
System details note
DVD format; NTSC, widescreen; region 1.
Audience
"For educational use only"--Container, disc surface.
Contents
Introduction
Let's go back 70 years
Hegel/Party name/McCarthyism
Becoming an activist
Meeting James Boggs
Martin and Malcolm
1967 rebellions
Conversations in Maine
Revolution
Detroit's first Black mayor
Re-examining MLK
Detroit summer
Asian American movement
Conversation as activism
Aging is not for sissies
What time is it?
Genre/Form
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
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