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  1. May 17, 2016 · Lawyer, children’s rights advocate, and author. Edelman was born on June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina, the daughter of the Baptist minister Arthur Jerome Wright and Maggie Leola Bowen. She graduated from Marlboro Training High School in 1956; from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1960; and from Yale Law School in 1963.

  2. May 1, 2013 · Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights activist, lawyer and author, is the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund which has sought to bring the plight of children to the attention of policy mkers and the public, and has been a vigorous advocate for the creation and funding of programs to improve children’s lives for over twenty years.

  3. Books by Marian Wright Edelman Sort Featured Price, low to high Price, high to low Alphabetically, A-Z Alphabetically, Z-A Date, old to new Date, new to old Best Selling I Can Make A Difference: A Treasury to Inspire our Children by Marian Wright Edelman, illustrations by Barry Moser

  4. May 31, 1992 · Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a ...

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  5. Oct 31, 1994 · Wasting America's Future. Marian Wright Edelman. Beacon Press, Oct 31, 1994 - Social Science - 192 pages. The Health and Human Services poverty line for a three-person family in America is $11,8oo in annual income. One in every five American children is growing up in poverty.

  6. May 14, 2013 · Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, is one of the most important moral leaders in America. Her first book, The Measure of Our Success was a #1 New York Times bestseller—spending 16 weeks on the list, selling more than 450,000 copies and garnering spectacular praise from Hillary Clinton, Maya Angelou ...

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