{"title":"Marian Wright Edelman","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"dream-me-home-safely-writers-on-growing-up-in-america-paperback","title":"Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who \"used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in.\" The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, \"Your house smells funny,\" and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a collection as diverse and powerful as all of American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433666805983,"sku":"9780618379026","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lRhmQZwm__9780618379026.webp?v=1790016809"},{"product_id":"lanterns-a-memoir-of-mentors-paperback","title":"Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"All who love children are served generously and intelligently by the ideas, commitments, and passion of Marian Wright Edelman. Her arms are open to the children and adults of the world, and we all are stronger and more safe because of her.\" -- Maya Angelou\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this century's most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles. In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extraordinary mentors who helped light her way including Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and William Sloane Coffin. She celebrates the lives of her parents and the great Black Women of Bennettsville, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with many of the author's personal photographs, \u003cem\u003eLanterns \u003c\/em\u003ealso 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51434211639519,"sku":"9780060958596","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/B0caV7_pYI9780060958596.webp?v=1790024816"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/marian-wright-edelman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}