Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty

Title:: Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty
Speaker:: Marian Wright Edelman
Description:: 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.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 15:09

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