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Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors by Marian Wright Edelman
4 stars

Marian Wright Edelman is the president and founder of The Children's Defense fund. She is a lawyer and a strong activist and advocate for the rights of children, particularly those living in poverty. This is just one of her many inspiring books. In this book she describes in each chapter two or three people who have mentored or inspired her to become what she is today. Because of the time in which she grew up in the segregated south, and being the daughter of a prominent preacher, she found herself surrounded by some of the great leaders of The Civil Rights Movement. She knew Dr. King, Malcolm X, and people like Rosa Parks. She attended Spelman college and later Yale for law school school.

In her typical fashion as with her other books and some of her other writings, this book was not just a fascinating look into an amazing woman's life, but also a call to people to think about how they are raising their children and what influence that has on them but society as well. This particular part, I'll admit, gets a little preachy, but comes from a well meaning place.