It couldn’t have been easy for the determined, ambitious Marian Wright Edelman as a black woman in Mississippi on the cusp of the civil rights movementIt couldn’t have been easy for the determined, ambitious Marian Wright Edelman as a black woman in Mississippi on the cusp of the civil rights movement. Although Edelman credits her many mentors with helping her to reach her aims, her family, friends, classmates and colleagues would claim that she was more than capable of doing it alone. In Lanterns, the civil rights activist, lawyer and author shares her life’s story with readers - and motivates us all to take up her torch. | Lanterns by Marian Wright Edelman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters