James boggs biography

James Boggs (May 27, 1919 – July 22, 1993) was an American Marxist political activist, auto worker and author. He was married to philosopher activist Grace Lee Boggs for forty years until his death.

James boggs biography

Biography

Born in 1919 in Marion Junction, Alabama,^[1] Boggs was an African-American activist, perhaps best known for authoring The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook in 1963.

He was also an auto worker at Chrysler from 1940 until 1968.

Boggs was active in the revolutionary left organization, Correspondence Publishing Committee, from around the time it left the Trotskyist movement in the early 1950s.

The group was advised by C. L. R. James, who was at that time exiled in Britain. In 1955, James Boggs became the editor of their bi-monthly publication, called Correspondence. When Correspondence Publishing Committee suffered a split in 1955, led by Raya Dunayevskaya, and lost nearly half its membership, James and Grace