Apr 11, 1997 | UC San Franscisco
Standing for Children
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, and directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1968 she moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as counsel for the Poor People’s March that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had begun organizing prior to his death.