商品簡介
A founder of the Children's Defense Fund evaluates what has been achieved and what still needs to be done in order to make the nation safe and fair for children, in an uplifting call-to-arms that is presented as a series of open letters to the author's grandchildren, the nation's leaders, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 100,000 first printing.
作者簡介
Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, as well as numerous others that she has authored and edited. She is the winner of many awards for her work including a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Neibuhr 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.