Lanterns A Memoir of Mentors

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. Book jacket.

Marian Wright Edelman is the president of the Children’s Defense Fund and the author of the best-selling The Measure of Our Success, Guide My Feet, and Lanterns. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.

Preface

xiii

Parents as Mentors

1

(9)

Arthur Jerome

Maggie Leola Bowen Wright

Community Elders as Co-Parents and Mentors

10

(10)

Miz Tee

Miz Lucy

Miz Kate

Miz Amie

Teachers and their Messages

20

(4)

Spelman College---A Safe Haven

24

(13)

Benjamin Elijah Mays

Howard Zinn

Charles E. Merrill, Jr.

Europe

37

(7)

And a Spring of Change

44

(22)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Yale Years and Getting Ready for Mississippi

66

(10)

William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

Malcolm X

The Mississippi Years

76

(7)

Mississippi Mentors

83

(18)

Bob Moses

Fannie Lou Hamer

Mae Bertha Carter

Unita Blackwell

A Season of Hope for the Hungry

101

(15)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

R.F.K.

Movement Time

116

(5)

Great Black Women Mentors and Movement Builders

121

(12)

Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth

Mary McLeod Bethune

Septima Clark

Ella Baker

Our Children as Mentors

133

(8)

America as Mentor for its Children and the World

141

(12)

Afterword A Parent's Pledge and Twenty-Five More Lessons for Life

153

(16)

A Glossary of Mentors and Significant Others

169

(8)

Works Cited

177

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Lanterns A Memoir of Mentors

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