ABSTRACT
When Grace Lee Boggs, an American born Chinese, was in her mid-twenties, she found herself being sucked into the vortex of the Black freedom struggle that ultimately changed her outlook on life and social change. She had just earned her doctorate in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in June 1940. But the door of opportunity was tightly shut; the combination of racial and gender discrimination made it virtually impossible for her to secure an academic position as a professor of philosophy. Undeterred, she started to get involved in grassroots political activism.
