Celebration of Diversity Series Concludes Season with Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman, lifelong advocate for disadvantaged Americans and founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, will speak at Clowes Memorial Hall on March 23 as part of Butler University's Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public, but a ticket is required. Tickets are available at the Clowes box office, (317) 940-6444.
Under Edelman's leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. She began her career in the mid-1960s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death.
She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body of the Children's Defense Fund. For two years she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and in 1973 began CDF.
Her awards include the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship. In 2000, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings, which include eight books.
The Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series is a collaborative diversity initiative between Butler University and the Office of the Mayor of Indianapolis, with generous support from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, Allison Transmission, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Vectren Corporation, Indianapolis Power & Light Company, Citizens Energy Group, Old National Bank, The Columbia Club and Radio One.
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