{"product_id":"lanterns-a-memoir-of-mentors-9780060958596","title":"Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"All who love children are served generously and intelligently by the ideas, commitments, and passion of Marian Wright Edelman. Her arms are open to the children and adults of the world, and we all are stronger and more safe because of her.\" -- Maya Angelou\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this century's most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles. In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extraordinary mentors who helped light her way including Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and William Sloane Coffin. She celebrates the lives of her parents and the great Black Women of Bennettsville, South Carolina--Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate--who gave her love and guidance in her youth, as well as the many teachers and figures who inspired her education at Spelman College and empowered her early as an activist in the 1960's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with many of the author's personal photographs, \u003cem\u003eLanterns \u003c\/em\u003ealso includes a \"Parents' Pledge\" and \"Twenty-Five More Lessons for Life\" to guide, protect, and love our children every day so that they will become, in Edelman's moving vision, the healing agents for national transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marian Wright Edelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060958596\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e46848 \/ Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdelman, Marian Wright:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarian Wright Edelman\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours\u003c\/em\u003e and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her husband live in Washington, DC, and have three children and four grandchildren.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43110626590835,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_8921aef7-a919-4a82-8452-2e281d9bc0f8.jpg?v=1748982569","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/lanterns-a-memoir-of-mentors-9780060958596","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}