Fitur upeti: Marian Wright Edelman

“A woman of faith and mercy”

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Marian Wright Edelman adalah pendukung seumur hidup bagi yang kurang beruntung dan Amerika adalah Pendiri dan Presiden Dana Pertahanan Anak-anak (CDF). Di bawah kepemimpinannya, CDF telah menjadi suara bangsa terkuat bagi anak-anak dan keluarga.

Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body of the Children’s Defense Fund.

For two years she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and in 1973 began CDF. Mrs. Edelman served on the Board of Trustees of Spelman College which she chaired from 1976 untuk 1987 and was the first woman elected by alumni as a member of the Yale University Corporation on which she served from 1971 untuk 1977.

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