Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors

by Edelman, Marian Wright

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2000 Remainder mark. Soft Cover. New.

Book summary

Through her memories of her mentors, Edelman tells the story of her ascent from a segregated South Carolina, though Yale Law School, and to her presidency of the Children's Defense Fund. She recalls her years under the tutelage of Martin Luther King Jr., Charles Merrill Jr. of the Merrill Lynch family, Robert F. Kennedy, and Howard Zinn, a Spelman professor who participated in lunch-counter sit-ins.