TED Talks

Marian Wright Edelman: Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty (2019x33)

Air date: Jan 30, 2019

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.