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Edelman, Marian Wright

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Personal name headingEdelman, Marian Wright
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Variant(s)Wright, Marian
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedAtlanta (Ga.) New Haven (Conn.) New York (N.Y.) Jackson (Miss.) Washington (D.C.)
Birth date1939-06-06
Place of birthBennettsville (S.C.)
AffiliationNAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Spelman College
Yale University
Children's Defense Fund (U.S.)
Harvard Center for Law and Education
Profession or occupationAttorneys Civil rights workers Educators
Found inHer Portrait of inequality, c1980: t.p. (Marian Wright Edelman) p. 119 (president, Children's Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.)
Otfinoski, S. Marian Wright Edelman, c1991: CIP ch. 1 (Marian Wright; b. 06-06-39)
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Edelman, Marian Wright; Lawyer; civil rights activist, organization founder / official, human rights activist; born 06 June 1939 in Bennettsville, South Carolina, United States; graduated from Spelman College (1956-1960), Law degree from Yale University Law School (1960-1963); worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in New York; served as director of the LDF's office in Jackson, Mississippi; the first black woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar; director of the Harvard Center for Law and Education (1971-1973); founded the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) in 1973; in 2000 President Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom)
Associated languageeng