Lanterns
Subtitle: a memoir of mentors
By: Marian Wright Edelman.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Edelman, Marian Wright.; Edelman, Marian Wright -- Friends and associates.; Edelman, Marian Wright -- Philosophy.; Mentoring -- United States.; African American women social reformers -- Biography.; Conduct of life.; Children -- United States -- Conduct of life.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Marian Wright Edelman, "the most influential children's advocate in the country" (The Washington Post), shares stories from her life at the center of this century's most dramatic civil rights struggles. She pays tribute to the extraordinary personal mentors who helped light her way: Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, William Sloane Coffin, Ella Baker, Mae Bertha Carter, and many others."--BOOK JACKET.

"Lanterns takes us to Mississippi in the 1960s, where Edelman was the first and only Black woman lawyer. And we follow Edelman as she leads Bobby Kennedy on his fateful trip to see Mississippi poverty and hunger for himself, a powerful personal experience for the young RFK that helped awaken a nation's conscience to child hunger and poverty."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-180).