To better children's lives through health, safety, and opportunity. Because getting the welfare of chidren on the national agenda is hard and painstaking work. I think it takes 15-20 years to get a set of complex social issues onto the front burner. One out of 2 children in this country never completes a single year of college.
Absentee parents get what they deserve.
Co-ordinated the Poor People's Campaign after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. 1970s - Founded the Children's Defense Fund. 1990 - CDF secured the Act for Better Child Care, a major piece of federal legislation for children. A Letter to My Children and Yours. Member of Spelman College board and its former chair.