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Materials collected from the proceedings of the Colorado College Class of 2013 Commencement Ceremony on May 17, 2013.
Program of Colorado College Class of 2013 Commencement ceremony, Monday, May 20, 2013, 8:30 a.m., Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado College Armstrong quad. CC President Jill M. Tiefenthaler presiding. Commencement speaker, Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, "The Values of Lifelong Learning, Civic Engagement, and Intellectual Leadership."
Speech delivered by CC President Jill Tiefenthaler at the 2013 Commencement ceremony at Colorado College, May 20, 2013.
Colorado College 2013 Commencement speaker is Marian Wright Edelman. In addition to being the recipient of a Colorado College honorary degree in 1999, Edelman completed her undergraduate degree at Spelman College and went on to graduate from Yale Law School in 1963. Originally from Bennettsville, S.C., Edelman began practicing law in 1964 when she became the first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar. Before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1968 to serve as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death, Edelman directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss.
Program of Colorado College Class of 2013 Commencement ceremony, Monday, May 20, 2013, 8:30 a.m., Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado College Armstrong quad. CC President Jill M. Tiefenthaler presiding. Commencement speaker, Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, "The Values of Lifelong Learning, Civic Engagement, and Intellectual Leadership."
Speech delivered by CC President Jill Tiefenthaler at the 2013 Commencement ceremony at Colorado College, May 20, 2013.
Colorado College 2013 Commencement speaker is Marian Wright Edelman. In addition to being the recipient of a Colorado College honorary degree in 1999, Edelman completed her undergraduate degree at Spelman College and went on to graduate from Yale Law School in 1963. Originally from Bennettsville, S.C., Edelman began practicing law in 1964 when she became the first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar. Before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1968 to serve as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death, Edelman directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss.