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Marion Wright Marian Wright Edelman testifying during a hearing on poverty in Jackson, Mississippi on April 10, 1967. Robert Kennedy was in Mississippi for U.S. Senate Hearings on poverty. Edelman worked in Mississippi on voter registration and for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar.

April 10, 1967

Marion Wright, civil rights attorney, testifies at the U.S. Subcommittee Hearings to Examine and Evaluate the War on Poverty in Mississippi at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson. Edelman worked in Mississippi on voter registration and for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar.

April 10, 1967
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