Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is the president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Here thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world and by the atheist A. Philip Randolph.

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June 6 - 1939 - Children's Defense Fund - Christianity - Atheist - A. Philip Randolph

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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.

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Spelman College - Yale Law School - NAACP - Poor People's March on Washington - Civil rights - Public interest - 1973

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