VETERAN US labour, civil rights and women’s liberation campaigner Grace Lee Boggs died at her Detroit home on Monday, aged 100.

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Grace Lee was born in Rhode Island in 1915 and grew up in New York.

In the 1940s she worked with Trinidadian socialist theorist CLR James, helping him found the Workers Party, a split from the Socialist Workers Party.

She moved to Detroit in the 1950s to write for a socialist newspaper, where she met her future husband James Boggs.

The couple became involved in the Black Power movement and helped organise a 1963 march in Detroit with Martin Luther King, as well as the November 1963 grassroots leadership conference with Malcolm X.

President Barack Obama said that Ms Boggs had learnt early in life that “the world needed changing and she overcame barriers to do just that.”