American revolutionary : the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs / directed and produced by Grace Lee ; producers, Caroline Libresco, Austin Wilkin.

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"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 contradict...

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Corporate Author: LeeLee Films (Firm)
Other Authors: Lee, Grace (Grace Yoon-Kyung) (Producer, Director), Libresco, Caroline (Producer), Wilkin, Austin (Producer), Roberts, Kim (Film editor), Henry, Jerry, Trà̂n, Quyẻ̂n, Maddala, Vivek, Huang, Joan
Language:English
Published: [United States] : LeeLee Films, [2013]
Subjects:
Boggs, Grace Lee.
Chinese American women > Michigan > Detroit > Biography.
Political activists > Michigan > Detroit > Biography.
Women radicals > Michigan > Detroit > Biography.
Chinese Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Biography.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
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"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.
Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2013.
Includes trailer.
Videorecording.
Call Number:F574.D49 C52 2013 VideoDVD
ISBN:9780989972604
0989972607
Credits:Editor, Kim Roberts ; cinematography, Jerry A. Henry, Quyen Tran ; music by Vivek Maddala ; executive producer, Joan Huang.
System Details:DVD; NTSC, widescreen; region 1.