| LC control no. | n 82023579 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Edelman, Marian Wright |
| Variant(s) | Wright, Marian |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Atlanta (Ga.) New Haven (Conn.) New York (N.Y.) Jackson (Miss.) Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1939-06-06 |
| Place of birth | Bennettsville (S.C.) |
| Affiliation | NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Spelman College Yale University Children's Defense Fund (U.S.) Harvard Center for Law and Education |
| Profession or occupation | Attorneys Civil rights workers Educators |
| Found in | Her 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 language | eng |
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