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Defender of the Rights of African-Americans, Children and Families Marian Wright Edelman began her career focusing on African-Americans rights and went on to defend children and families by founding the Children's Defense Fund Marian Wight Edelman was born on June 6, 1939 in Bennettsville, South Carolina, one of the five children of African-American Baptist preacher Arthur Wright and Maggie Bowen Wight. As a child, she experienced living in a small, socially segregated town where she attended racially divided public schools. After completing her studies and becoming the first Aftrican-American woman lawyer in Mississippi, she married Peter Edelman, an assistant to Robert Kennedy in 1968. They had three sons. Education Marian Wright Edelman's father died when she was fourteen-years-old and his last words to her were, “Don’t... [read full story]
