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   • Peter Edelman

     m. 1968

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   Edelman and her husband, now a Georgetown law professor, have three children: Joshua, Jonah, and Ezra. Joshua is an educational administrator; Jonah works in education advocacy and founded Stand for Children; Ezra is a television producer and director who won an Academy Award for his documentary O.J.: Made in America. Honors and awards

   • Author: Nellie Pappas, Marian Wright Edelman
   • Occupation: Children's rights activist

   • Publish Year: 1987
   • Born: Marian Wright, June 6, 1939 (age 84), Bennettsville, South Carolina, U.S.

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   Feb 7, 2017 · Feb. 7, 2017. When Marian Wright and Peter Edelman married in July 1968, their wedding was like an armistice. In April, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated; two months...

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   (She and her husband, Peter Edelman, were among the first interracial couples married in Virginia.), “I could never stand any child being excluded from anything,” Mrs. Edelman said.

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   Edelman is married to Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund and the first black woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi. They have three sons: Joshua, Jonah and Ezra. Honors. Former United States–Japan Leadership Program Fellow; Former J. Skelly Wright Memorial Fellow at Yale Law School; Selected bibliography

   • Preceded by: David T. Ellwood

   • President: Bill Clinton

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   Feb 7, 2017 · By Penelope Green. February 7, 2017. When Marian Wright and Peter Edelman married in July 1968, their wedding was like an armistice. In April, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been ...

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   When did Marian Wright and Peter Edelman marry?

   • When Marian Wright and Peter Edelman married in July 1968, their wedding was like an armistice. In April, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated; two months later, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was murdered — on June 6, Mrs. Edelman’s birthday. For years afterward, the couple would spend that day at Arlington Cemetery.

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   Who are Ezra Edelman and Jonah Edelman?

   • Their challenges were more quotidian: balancing work and family. The couple have three sons. Jonah Edelman and Joshua Edelman are education advocates; Ezra Edelman is a director and producer, whose most recent film is “O.J.: Made in America,” the nearly eight-hour documentary that was recently nominated for an Oscar.

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   What did Marian Wright Edelman say about Yitzhak Rabin?

   • In November 1995, with congressional Republicans pushing for welfare changes, Marian Wright Edelman wrote a vituperative open letter to the president in The Washington Post, saying that he faced "a defining moral litmus test" for his presidency. That month, Hillary Clinton invited Peter Edelman to fly on Air Force One to Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral.

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   Who were the edelmans after the Lovings prevailed?

   • The Edelmans were the third interracial couple to marry there after the Lovings prevailed. “I hate barriers,” Mrs. Edelman said. “And it was a time to bring down barriers.” The Edelmans were the third interracial couple to marry in Virginia.

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   Jun 2, 2016 · Edelman’s husband, Peter Edelman, quit his Clinton administration job in protest over the 1996 bill, and the tensions lingered for years — with Marian Wright Edelman telling an...

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    May 17, 2016 · On July 14, 1968, she married Peter Edelman, a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. They met in 1967 when her future husband accompanied Kennedy to Mississippi and witnessed its poverty firsthand.