Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is the president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Edelman worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Poor People's March on Washington , and on a variety of other civil rights and public interest causes before founding the Children's Defense Fund in 1973.
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