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By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History since 1999

Defender of Children

Wednesday February 14, 2007
The first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi state bar, Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund and an advocate of social reform. Read more:

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