* From
1976-87, Marian Wright Edelman chaired
the Spelman College board of trustees.
* Throughout
her career, Edelman has called for increased federal spending on
social welfare programs, coupled with cuts in military
expenditures. In her 1987 book Families
in Peril,
she wrote,
"We must curb the fanatical military weasel and keep it in
balance with competing national needs."
* In 2000,
Edelman was a signatory to a letter
titled “Appeal for Responsible Security” that appeared in the New
York Times.
The letter stated, “… we call upon the United States government
to commit itself unequivocally to negotiate the worldwide reduction
and elimination of nuclear weapons, in a series of well-defined
stages accompanied by increasing verification and control.” Other
signatories included Jimmy
Carter, Martin
Sheen, George
Soros, John
Sweeney, and Ted
Turner.
