# Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDWomen 2018
- Speaker: Marian Wright Edelman
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Law, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/marian_wright_edelman_reflections_from_a_lifetime_fighting_to_end_child_poverty)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/marian_wright_edelman_reflections_from_a_lifetime_fighting_to_end_child_poverty/42de7999b1ec), 15 min (TED's player)