The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Edelman, Marian Wright

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1992

080703102X / 9780807031025

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23 cm, 97, some soiling and edge wear to DJ. Inscribed by the author. Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children. She has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. She is founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Edelman was the first African American woman admitted to The Mississippi Bar. She represented activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. Edelman contributed to the organizing of the Poor People's Campaign of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1973, she founded the Children's Defense Fund as a voice for poor children, children of color, and children with disabilities. The organization has served as an advocacy and research center for children's issues. As founder, leader and principal spokesperson for the CDF, Mrs. Edelman worked to persuade Congress to overhaul foster care, support adoption, improve child care and protect children who are disabled, homeless, abused or neglected. She continues to advocate youth pregnancy prevention, child-care funding, prenatal care, greater parental responsibility in teaching values and curtailing what she sees as children's exposure to the barrage of violent images transmitted by mass media. The author was the founder of The Children's Defense Fund. Her book is deeply rooted in the conviction that service to others is simply the rent we pay for living. From a review posted on-line: To help parents chart a course for their children based on traditional values--self-reliance, family, hard work, justice, the pursuit of knowledge and of brotherhood--Edelman. effectively recounts her experience and vision in essays variously addressed to her own children, to all children and to parents. Edelman . recalls the community of her childhood where one child's accomplishments gave joy to all, where neighbors took care of each other and where parents instilled a sense of responsibility in their offspring. In the introduction the author's son Jonah examines the value and pressure of being raised by an African American mother and a Jewish father. 40,000 first printing..

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Titel
The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
Autor
Edelman, Marian Wright
Verlag
Beacon Press, Boston, MA
Veröffentlichungsjahr
1992
Zustand
very good
Schutzumschlag
good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
080703102X
ISBN-13
9780807031025
Ausgabe
Sixth Printing.
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