Marian Wright Edelman
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Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is the president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. 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.
External links
- Biography page at CDF (http://www.childrensdefense.org/about/mwe.asp)
- http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_marian_wright_edelman.htm