Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and peoples to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations, and folktales that speak to all children to let them know that they can make a difference in today's world.

I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children

Children's Books

Edelman, Marian Wright

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and peoples to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations, and folktales that speak to all children to let them know that they can make a difference in today's world.

Here are prayers and meditations for parents and others who strive to instill values of faith, integrity, compassion, and service in our children at a time when these ideas are threatened by commercialism and violence. With warmth and conviction, Edleman shares his own prayers as well as inspirational readings from others. Turn in this book for guidelines and support--again and again.

Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Children

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Harper-perennial

Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this cantury's most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles. In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extrordinary mentors who helped light her way including Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and William Slaone Coffin. She celebrates the lives of her parents and the great Black Women of Bennetsville, South Carolina- Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate-who gave her love and guidance in her youth, as well as the many teachers and figures who inspired her education at Spelman College and empowered her early as an activist in the 1960's.Illustrated with many of the author's personal photographs, Lanterns also includes a "Parents' Pledge" and "Twenty-Five More Lessons for Life" to guide, protect, and love our children every day so that they will become, in Edelman's moving vision, the healing agents for national transformation.

Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors

Parenting & Relationships

Perennial

The #1 New York Times bestseller is a thinking person's Life's Little Instruction Book, with simple yet inspirational messages about living.

The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Self-Help

Motivational

A beautiful gift edition of the number one "New York Times" bestseller--from the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund.

The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children & Yours

Parenting

HarperCollins, Publishers

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, is one of the most important moral leaders in America. Her first book, The Measure of Our Success was a #1 New York Times bestseller -- spending 16 weeks on the list, selling more than 450,000 copies and garnering spectacular praise from Hillary Clinton, Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey. Guide My Feet, her long-awaited second book, continues her crusade for the well-being of America's children by providing a counterweight to the lesson society is teaching this generation of children -- to be soulless takers instead of empowered givers. 
 Guide My Feet is a collection of prayers and meditations gathered from Edelman's own holiday rituals and experiences and the writings of such inspiring leaders as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi and Frederick Douglass. It urges readers to commit to and pray for strength and patience, and offers solace and direction for parents troubled by the commercialism and violence running rampant in today's society. Filled with wisdom, compassion and understanding, it provides an important spiritual and moral resource all caregivers can turn to as they strive to instill values, integrity, self-discipline and faith in children.

Guide My Feet : Prayers and Meditations on Loving and Working for Children

Religion & Spirituality

In this analysis, the President of the Children's Defense Fund describes the disintegrating state of the family over a generation, dispels common assumptions, and sets a bold agenda to strengthen families and protect children

Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures, 1986)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harvard Univ Pr

Too many American families―unstable, broken, often poor―are in serious peril, and both the reality of the situation and the myths obscuring that reality call for attention and swift action. In this most incisive analysis of the parlous state of the family today, Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children’s Defense Fund, charts what is happening, exposes myths, and sets a bold agenda to strengthen families and protect children. In brilliant strokes and with abundant detail, Edelman describes family conditions over a generation―the rising curve of teenage pregnancy, the overwhelming joblessness of young blacks, the trend toward single-parent households, the increase in hungry and neglected children.
Dispelling common assumptions about these bleak phenomena, she shows that the birth rate for black unmarried women is stabilizing while that for unmarried whites continues to rise, that Aid to Dependent Children does not cause teenage pregnancy or births, and that the child poverty rate has increased two-thirds for whites in recent years, as opposed to one-sixth for black children. Overall, whites are losing ground faster than blacks. Speaking for a growing number of social commentators, she finds the key to explain the rising proportion of births to single black mothers: a lost generation of fathers―young black males unable to marry and support a family, jobless from lack of education and training.
What can be done? Edelman links the family and child poverty crisis to the fragile and ephemeral commitment of government to assist the needy. She suggests establishing a partnership between government, the private sector, and the black community to ensure children food, clothing, housing, medical care, and education. “Preventive investment strategies”―providing health, nutrition, and child care, raising the minimum wage, preventing teenage pregnancies, and opening up educational and employment opportunities for heads of families―will benefit us all. A passionate call to act now, to give real meaning to traditional American instincts for decency, this book is essential reading for everyone committed to preserving the nation’s future.

Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

Harvard University Press

Marian Wright Edelman's collection of prayers has an immediate, honest voice that touches on issues that children and teens face in today's increasingly complicated world. Grouped according to themes such as hope, gratitude, and help, and filled with wisdom and insight, these prayers offer our children a powerful opportunity to connect with their own spirituality. Bryan Collier, recipient of the Caldecott Honor Medal, among other honors, captures the vibrancy of our multicultural world in his stunning collage artwork.

I'm Your Child, God

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I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children

I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children

Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations for Our Children

Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors

The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children & Yours

Guide My Feet : Prayers and Meditations on Loving and Working for Children

Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures, 1986)

Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

I'm Your Child, God