gracely boggs is all of these. yet she transcends what these narrow labels capture. even decades of political involvement in many of the major u.s. social movements of the last century. that is why she is the subject of the new film "american revolutionary: the evolution of gracely boggs" that will air on pbs' award-winning series "p.o.v." in 2014. in 1941, grace was part of the effort for a proposed march on washington to protest the defense industry's refusal to hire black workers. at the height of the red scare, mccarthy era, grace spent a decade studying and organizing with famed marxist c.l.r. james and as a result has a pretty impressive fbi file. that file grew thicker when grace moved to detroit because, as she put it, that was where the workers were, the people with whom she sought to be in solidarity and struggle. in detroit, grace became involved in the black power movement and met her husband, james boggs, an autoworker, writer, intellectual, and an african-american man who was himself a revolutionary thinker. grace helped to organize a massive 1963 freedo

i spoke to gracely boggs, the 98-year-old activist today at the end of the show and asked her in the hallway, how do you feel about the obama administration right now and about president obama. she said, that's the wrong question. everybody keeps asking, what can president obama do for me? is he doing a good job for me? the question is what are we doing to make it possible to govern in our own interests? and again, when you look at a bobby jindal in louisiana, my neighbors, poor people who need health care, who need medicaid, who are telling bobby jindal, go, bobby, go, resist the president. resist the president? this is health care for you! >> you know, final point to you, governor dean. i mean, just imagine, could you possibly imagine when you were governor not taking the medicaid money and then literally having to face your constituents and say, i don't want barack obama to succeed? i mean, as a governor, i can't imagine. >> i think -- these guys are going to pay an enormous price. i can see the attack already. sold out his own people to be president. and then you will have poor p

grace with which she meets this terrible hour. she brings dignity to it. casketl walk behind the when the proceedings begin. --i thought it was terrible the moving story that congressman boggs told. the three-year-old son was taken away by one of the police guards. the youngster that small could not realize or comprehend what was going on. he became restless. he took a few steps away from the rotunda to the speaker's office. he walked in there -- there were two american flags. they were decorations on the desks. they youngster looks at them and they gave him one. he held it and said, can i have the other one for my father? terribly -- >> one of the most moving things. the merciful innocence of a small child. it is like the lion in the play. -- all remember the name the way home, the boy said, even after being told, he said i wanted to show him my new hat. that kind of thing is more poignant than the known grief of an older person. we want to take one last look at the capitol rotunda. the coffin has reposed through the night. havethousands of people been able to file past and pay their last respects. end of thenear this broadcast for today. we will switch to the rotunda. whe