- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (3 video files (1 hr., 28 min., 57 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Nonprofit founder and Marian Wright Edelman was born on June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina. While working as director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi, she became the first African American female to pass the Mississippi Bar. In 1968, Edelman moved to Washington, D.C., and subsequently became counsel to the Poor People's Campaign organized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She founded the Washington Research Project, where she lobbied for child and family nutrition programs and expanding the nation's Head Start program. In 1973, the Washington Research Project became the Children's Defense Fund, the United States' leading advocacy group for children. As president of the CDF, Edelman worked to decrease teenage pregnancy, increase Medicaid coverage for poor children, and secure government funding for programs like Head Start.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Marian Wright Edelman
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
- OCLC
- 1003150048
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Marian Wright Edelman.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
012857
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
- Event
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2001 April 24.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Foundation Chief Executive.
- Added Author
Edelman, Marian Wright, interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Bieschke, Paul, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.