James Boggs spoke at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on “Urban Design and Social Change.”

James Boggs speaks out at 1st Unitarian-Universalist Church on Friday, June 24th, 1988

This is the first opportunity I have had to speak to an audience in Atlanta, a city which in the last few years has become the center for many tendencies in intellectual and political thinking by Blacks. Many black groups from all over the country have held conferences here, and in this process you have had an opportunity to evaluate the movement of the black indigenous forces which erupted in the 1960s and within a few years brought this whole country into its present state of social upheaval.

The black movement has gone through a number of stages in the last 15 years.