Marian Wright Edelman

“A woman of faith and mercy”

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27September 2008
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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.

She has received many honorary degrees and awards including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship.

Dalam 2000, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings which include eight books: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change; The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours; Guide My Feet: Meditations and Prayers on Loving and Working for Children; Stand for Children; Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors; Hold My Hand: Prayers for Building a Movement to Leave No Child Behind; I’m Your Child, God: Prayers for Our Children; and I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children.

She is a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, the Association to Benefit Children, and City Lights School and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Marian Wright Edelman is married to Peter Edelman, a Professor at Georgetown Law School. They have three sons, Joshua, Jonah, and Ezra, two granddaughters, Ellika and Zoe, and two grandsons, Elijah and Levi.

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Books by Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman has authored a number of books that provide inspiration, prayer, guidance, and motivation to people of all ages.

Biography
Marian Wright Edelman was born in and grew up in Bennettsville, South Carolina, one of five children. Ayahnya, Arthur Wright, was a Baptist preacher who taught his children that Christianity required service in this world and who was influenced by A. Phillip Randolph.

Freedom Heroes: Marian Wright Edelman
“Marian Wright Edelman gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Tarbut V’Torah in Irvine, Calif., and MY HERO was there.”