Revolutions are Made of Love

The Story of James Boggs and

Grace Lee Boggs

A TRUE TALE WITH

A CHERRY ON TOP

Carolrhoda Books

(Lerner)

pub. 11.4.2025

40 pages

Ages 7 -11

Author: Sun Yung Shin & Melina Mangal

   Illustrator: Leslie Barlow

Character: James Boggs

and Grace Lee Boggs

Overview:

" James Boggs was a worker from rural Alabama in the segregated South. Grace Lee Boggs was a philosopher from urban Rhode Island and New York City. Both found their life’s work, and each other, in Detroit.

James and Grace were drawn to civil rights―and the labor, social, and political organizations through which people struggled for better living conditions for all.

What they created together was more than a marriage, it was a partnership. They fought with others for fair housing, jobs, food, labor unions, urban gardens, and more to make the world a better place for all. Their wide-ranging activism spanned the second half of the twentieth century."

Tantalizing taste:

"Many people

talk the talk,

but do they walk the walk?

James and Grace walked the talk.

They believed

in the power of ideas,

talking about them,

and thinking through

everything."

And something more: Notes from Sun Yung Shin explains: "I am privileged to have met Grace Lee Boggs in her Detroit home in 2004... In person, as on the page, her intellectual vigor and force of personality was immediately apparent. It was a singular experience to meet this urban Asian American woman philosopher who had lived through - and made - so much history and much of it within and with the Black community in Detroit."