FEMST 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grace Lee Boggs, Bull Connor, Life Insurance
Document Summary
Grace lee (filmmaker) interviews grace lee boggs (95 yr old activist) Chinese-american woman: fbi classified, marxist, black power advocate. Parents are immigrants but lived a comfortable existence. Black men don"t want to be equal to whites, just want equal accessibility. Detroit constantly on the brink of revolution. Ideas have their power because they"re not fixed and the minute they become fixed, they become dead. - grace lee boggs (1:11:24) 1961: proposal for poc & white people to ride buses in same cars to protest segregation. White people blind to racism and afraid of change. Protestors outside the bus to make sure it didn"t move with all the freedom. Bull connor told kkk what time to be at the bus station to hurt the freedom. Jfk wanted the freedom riders to stop bc didn"t want the distraction from his campaign race or to be embarrassed by the violence in the u. s.
