Lanterns
Subtitle: A Memoir of Mentors
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: October 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780807072141
Subjects: Friends and associates; United States; Mentoring; Edelman, Marian Wright; United States - 20th Century; U.S. - Political And Civil Rights Of Blacks; U.S. History - 1960s; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; History; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - General; Educators; People of Color; Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; Philosophy; Biography; African American women social; African American women social reformers; Conduct of life
First sentence: THE DISTINGUISHED THEOLOGIAN Howard Thurman once described an oak tree in his childhood yard with leaves that each autumn turned yellow and died, but stayed on the branches all winter.