| Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors Contributor(s): Edelman, Marian Wright (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060958596 ISBN-13: 9780060958596 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Religion | Inspirational |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00033430 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.32" W x 8.02" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 46848 Reading Level: 8.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 11.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Edelman, Marian Wright: - Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her husband live in Washington, D.C., and have three children and four grandchildren. |