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 ...

Edelman, considered “America’s First Mom,” founded the Children’s Defense Fund as a witness for children and to break the cycle of impoverished life for youth. Time seems slow to change with the ...

Never mind the model of the “Tiger Mother,” Amy Chua’s controversial version of tough parental love pushing sometimes reluctant children to heights of achievement. Marian Wright Edelman’s hopes are ...

*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 ...

As we near the one-year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death on Feb. 26, Children’s Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman echoes Harry Belafonte’s recent call for action on the Huffington Post ...

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), ...

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.

I can make a difference by loving myself and others as God loves us and treating others respectfully and fairly -- I can make a difference by being courageous -- I can make a difference by aiming high ...

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 ...