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Edelman, Marian Wright was born on June 6, 1939 in Bennettsville, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Arthur J. and Maggie (Bowen) Wright.
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Edelman, Marian Wright was born on June 6, 1939 in Bennettsville, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Arthur J. and Maggie (Bowen) Wright.
Merrill scholar, Universities Paris, Geneva, 1958-1959; Bachelor, Spelman College, 1960; Bachelor of Laws (J.H. Whitney fellow 1960-1961), Yale University, 1963; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Yale University Doctor of Laws (honorary), Smith College, 1969; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Lowell Technology U., 1975; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Williams College, 1978; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Columbia University Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Pennsylvania Doctor of Laws (honorary), Amherst College Doctor of Laws (honorary), St. Joseph's College Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lesley College, 1975; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Trinity College, Washington Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Russell Sage College, 1978; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Syracuse University, College New Rochelle, 1979; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Swarthmore College, 1980; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York Old Westbury, Northeastern U., 1981; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Bard College, 1982; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1983; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hunter College Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Southern Maine Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Albany, 1984; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, 1985; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rutgers University, Bates College, Maryville College, Bank St., 1986; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Claremont Grad School, Lincoln U., Georgetown University, Chicago Theological College, 1987; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Wheaton College, Tulane University, Grinnell College Brandeis U., Wheelock College, Dartmouth College, University of Southern California, U. North Carolina, Graduate Center CUNY, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 1988; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Interdenom. Theological Center, Hofstra U., Tufts U., Borough Manhattan Community College, Wesleyan University, California State University Los Angeles, Dillard University, University Maryland., U. Miami, 1989; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Howard U., Beloit College, Queens College, American U., New School of Social Research, College of Notre Dame, DePaul University, 1990; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Beaver College, Fordham University, Simmons College, Hamline U., Clark University, Harvard University, Union College, 1991; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Tuskegee U., Washington University St. Louis, Hood College, Duke U., Mercy College, 1992; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Princeton University, University of Illinois, California State University San Francisco, Wittenberg (Ohio) College, Shaw U., Southern Methodist U., 1993; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Brown University, University Baltimore, Eastern Connecticut State University, U. Notre Dame, 1994.
Staff attorney, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Ednl. Fund, Inc., New York City, 1963-1964; director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Ednl. Fund, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi, 1964-1968; Congressional and federal liaison, Poor People's Campaign, summer 1968; partner, Washington Research Project of Southern Center for Public Policy, 1968-1973; director, Harvard University Center for Law and Education, 1971-1973; president, founder, Children's Defense Fund, since 1973.
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Member executive committee Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 1961-1963. Member advisory council Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Library. Member advisory board Hampshire College.
Member Presidential Commission on Missing in Action, 1977, Presidential Commission on International Year of Child, 1979, Presidential Commission on Agenda for 80's, 1980. Board directors National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Trustee Spelman College, Carnegie Council on Children, 1972-1977, Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Center.
Member Yale University Corporation, 1971-1977, Aetna Foundation, National Commission on Children, since 1989. Board directors Aetna Life Casualty Foundation, Citizens for Constitutional Concerns, United States. committee United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, Robin Hood Foundation, Aaron Diamond Foundation, National Alliance Business, City Lights, Leadership Conference Civil Rights, Skadden Fellowship Foundation, Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc. United States representative United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund.
Active United States Olympic Committee. Member of Institute Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa (honorary).
Married Peter B. Edelman, July 14, 1968. Children: Joshua, Jonah, Ezra.