{"id":802,"date":"2017-05-29T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=802"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:39:43","slug":"boggs-james-1919-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"BOGGS, JAMES, 1919-1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Autoworker, writer;\u00a0social activist. \u00a0Born&#8211; May 28, 1919, Marion Junction. Parents&#8211;Ernest and Lelia Thomas Edwards Boggs. Married&#8211; Annie McKinley, 1938. Children&#8211;six. Married&#8211;\u00a0Grace Lee, April 20, 1953.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Public schools in Bessemer. Worked as a field hand; ice cutter; and for the Works Project Administration in Detroit, Mich.; and as auto worker in Detroit, 1941-1968. After 1963, he was a writer and community activist. With his wife Grace Lee,\u00a0 was associated with the leftist organization Correspondence Publishing Committee; wrote for and later edited its journal <em>Correspondence. <\/em>Died July 22, 1993.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; <em>Living for Change<\/em>, by Grace Lee Boggs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American Revolution; Pages from a Negro Worker&#8217;s Notebook. New York; Monthly Review Press, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Racism and the Class Struggle; Further Pages From a Black Worker&#8217;s Notebook. New York; Monthly Review Press, 1970.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conversations in Maine.\u00a0 Boston: South End Press, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century. New York; Monthly Review Press, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of James Boggs and Grace Boggs \u00a0are held in the Walter P. Reuther Library Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Autoworker, writer;\u00a0social activist. \u00a0Born&#8211; May 28, 1919, Marion Junction. Parents&#8211;Ernest and Lelia Thomas Edwards Boggs. Married&#8211; Annie McKinley, 1938. Children&#8211;six. Married&#8211;\u00a0Grace Lee, April 20, 1953.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Public schools in Bessemer. Worked as a field hand; ice cutter; and for the Works Project Administration in Detroit, Mich.; and as auto worker in Detroit, 1941-1968. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}