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Marian Wright Edelman was born on June 6th 1939 in South Carolina. Her father was a Baptist preacher and taught children about christianity.Before he died when she was only fourteen years old, he said to her "Don't let anything get in the way of your education." As a student, she embraced her fathers words and attended Spelman College and Yale. Edelman is now the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund.
"In the mid-60s, she was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar and directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office". Overall, she has received over 100 honorary degrees along with many awards. Later, in the 1990s, Bill Clinton was elected president, which gave Edelman's Children Defense Fund even more recognition because Hillary Clinton was involved with the program. Outside her work, her main joy is spend time with her husband, Peter Edelman and their three sons. Edelman now is currently 64 years old and still going.

E.D. Hirsch was born on March 22nd 1928.Raised in Tennessee, yet went to Cornell and Yale. He was the University Professor of Education and Humanities and the Liden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Hirsch has written many books through out his life including Wordsworth and Spelling, Innocence and Experience and Validity in Interpretation. These books, among others, to promote fairness in early education.
In 1986 he was the founder and chairman of the nonprofit Core Knowledge Foundation, which he has also written a series on starting with "What your Kindergartener needs to know and finishing with What your sixth grader needs to know. His writing became so popular that it appeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Hirsch is now considered to have an expertise in educational issues, reform and cultural literacy.


Works Cited-
Marian Edelman
Book:I can Make A difference:A Treasury to Inspire Our Children By: Marian Edelman
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=People_MWE
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/marianwrightedelman/p/m_w_edelman.htm
E. D. Hirsch
Book:The Knowledge Deficit By: E.D. Hirsch
http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Hirsch.html
http://www.hoover.org/bios/2812076.html