TED Talks Kids and Family
TED Talks Kids and Family
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Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty | Marian Wright Edelman
15 minutes Posted Jan 30, 2019 at 7:51 am.
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What does it take to build a national movement? In a captivating conversation with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Marian Wright Edelman reflects on her path to founding the Children's Defense Fund in 1973 -- from the early influence of growing up in the segregated American South to her activism with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- and shares how growing older has only made her more radical.