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Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School,
started her career in the mid-1960s when, as the first black woman
admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal
Defense and Education Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In
1968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor
People’s Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began
organizing before his death.
She founded the Washington Research Project, a public
interest law firm and the parent body of the Children’s Defense
Fund. For two years she served as the Director of the Center for
Law and Education at Harvard University and in 1973 she founded
the CDF.
Edelman serves on numerous boards and has received many honorary
degrees. Her awards include the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius”
award. She is married to Peter Edelman, a professor at
Georgetown
Law School. The couple has three grown sons, two granddaughters,
and two grandsons.
Following her presentation and question-and-answer session,
Edelman will be available for book signings.
Authors! Authors!
tickets are $10 per person. Tickets are available for purchase at
all Toledo-Lucas County Public Library locations and are limited
in quantity. Student discounts are available. For other scheduled
Authors! Authors! speakers log on to toledolilbrary.org.
For tickets, call 419.259.5266.
For more information on Edelman and CDF, log on to:
www.childrensdefense.org
or visit your public Library.
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