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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11375427.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-180).".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 180 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Lanterns.".
- catalog identifier "0807072141 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lanterns.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Lanterns.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "362.7/092 21".
- catalog subject "African American women social reformers Biography.".
- catalog subject "Children United States Conduct of life.".
- catalog subject "Conduct of life.".
- catalog subject "E185.97.E33 A3 1999".
- catalog subject "Edelman, Marian Wright Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Edelman, Marian Wright Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Edelman, Marian Wright.".
- catalog subject "Mentoring United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Lanterns : a memoir of mentors / Marian Wright Edelman.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".