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Highlights
- "All who love children are served generously and intelligently by the ideas, commitments, and passion of Marian Wright Edelman.
- Author(s): Marian Wright Edelman
- 224 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Educators
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About the Book
The author of "Measure of Our Success", a noted civil rights figure, and child advocate pays tribute to the extraordinary mentors who helped light her way--from luminaries such as Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy to her parents, teachers, and community women. photo insert.Book Synopsis
"All who love children are served generously and intelligently by the ideas, commitments, and passion of Marian Wright Edelman. Her arms are open to the children and adults of the world, and we all are stronger and more safe because of her." -- Maya Angelou
Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this century's most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles. In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extraordinary mentors who helped light her way including Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and William Sloane Coffin. She celebrates the lives of her parents and the great Black Women of Bennettsville, South Carolina--Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate--who gave her love and guidance in her youth, as well as the many teachers and figures who inspired her education at Spelman College and empowered her early as an activist in the 1960's.
Illustrated with many of the author's personal photographs, Lanterns also includes a "Parents' Pledge" and "Twenty-Five More Lessons for Life" to guide, protect, and love our children every day so that they will become, in Edelman's moving vision, the healing agents for national transformation.
Review Quotes
"All who love children are served generously and intelligently by the ideas, commitments, and passion of Marian Wright Edelman. Her arms are open to the children and adults of the world, and we all are stronger and more safe because of her." -- Maya Angelou
"This memoir, lucidly and poignantly told, offers a compelling moral history of our country--an account of how brave and honorable individuals helped us make changes both necessary and important to accomplish." -- Robert Coles
"A radiant and transcendent book, filled with moral lessons from the youth of a courageous woman to the hearts of those who follow in her footsteps: a gift of love from one heroic generation to the next." -- Jonathan Kozol