MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
Name: Marian Wright Edelman
Born: June 6, 1939
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina) is
an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of
the Children's Defense Fund.
Edelman's thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist
preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world, and by
civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Edelman worked for the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund, the Poor People's March on Washington, and on a variety of
other civil rights and public interest causes before founding the Children's
Defense Fund in 1973. She was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi
Bar.
Name: Marian Wright Edelman
Born: June 6, 1939
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina) is
an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of
the Children's Defense Fund.
Edelman's thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist
preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world, and by
civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Edelman worked for the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund, the Poor People's March on Washington, and on a variety of
other civil rights and public interest causes before founding the Children's
Defense Fund in 1973. She was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi
Bar.