Edelman has received more than 100 honorary degrees and many awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award and a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship. In 2000, she ...

The Children’s Defense Fund announced today that Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the child-advocacy organization, will step down as president. She will move into a new role as president emerita and ...

*WASHINGTON — Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, has sent out an urgent SOS to protect Medicaid and the 37 million children it serves across the nation, including 40 ...

Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense ...

Last night J.J. Abrams, Kevin Huvane, Conan O’Brien, John Cho, Jussie Smollett and scads of other boldface names joined Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman at the Beverly Wilshire ...

In a series of open letters to parents, educators, young people, Dr. King—with whom she collaborated on the 1968 Poor People's Campaign—and her own grandchildren—Edelman (The Measure of Our Success), ...

Bolling builds a third-person narrative around a Sojourner Truth quote in this forthright picture book biography of children’s and civil rights leader Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939). When the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An oral history consisting of a single digital video recording (2018.78.4.1). It was collected as part of the Poor People’s Campaign Interviews.

The original Children’s Defense Fund logo came from a drawing I saw in a gallery window during a walk through Cambridge, Massachusetts, where CDF had its beginning. The artwork was by 5-year-old Maria ...

Founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund Marian Wright Edelman will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 Leffler Memorial Lecture at Elizabethtown College. Edelman's lecture - slated for ...

WASHINGTON, May 4-- The Children's Defense Fund issued the following news release: Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund President, said today that the American Health Care Act passed by ...

As our nation pauses to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the dedication of a new memorial on the anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington, most will focus on only part of the story.