Lanterns : a memoir of mentors / Marian Wright Edelman.
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TextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, ©1999Description: xxi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: 0807072141; 9780807072141Subject(s): 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 lifeGenre/Form: Biography. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Lanterns.DDC classification: 362.7/092 LOC classification: E185.97.E33 | A3 1999Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
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Review: "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."--Jacket.Summary: "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."--Jacket.
Parents as mentors: Arthur Jerome and Maggie Leola Bowen Wright -- Community elders as co-parents and mentors: Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate, and Miz Amie -- Teachers and their messages -- Spelman college: a safe haven: Benjamin Elijah Mays, Howard Zinn, and Charles E. Merrill, Jr. -- Europe -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and a spring of change -- The Yale years: William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Malcolm X, and getting ready for Mississippi -- The Mississippi years -- Mississippi mentors: Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mae Bertha Carter, and Unita Blackwell -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and R.F.K.: a season of hope for the hungry -- Movement time -- Great Black women mentors and movement builders: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Septima Clark, and Ella Baker -- Our children as mentors -- America as mentor for its children and the world -- A parent's pledge and twenty-five more lessons for life.
| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 921/EDE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844300047756 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180).
Parents as mentors: Arthur Jerome and Maggie Leola Bowen Wright -- Community elders as co-parents and mentors: Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate, and Miz Amie -- Teachers and their messages -- Spelman college: a safe haven: Benjamin Elijah Mays, Howard Zinn, and Charles E. Merrill, Jr. -- Europe -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and a spring of change -- The Yale years: William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Malcolm X, and getting ready for Mississippi -- The Mississippi years -- Mississippi mentors: Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mae Bertha Carter, and Unita Blackwell -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and R.F.K.: a season of hope for the hungry -- Movement time -- Great Black women mentors and movement builders: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Septima Clark, and Ella Baker -- Our children as mentors -- America as mentor for its children and the world -- A parent's pledge and twenty-five more lessons for life.
"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."--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."--Jacket.
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