![]() These women represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue. ![]() ![]() They would become mothers not just to three world-famous men but to the civil rights movement itself. Tubbs explores the lives of the women before the men, as she calls them: Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin. It was a society that would deny their sons' humanity from the beginning as it had denied theirs, but Berdis, Alberta and Louise were extraordinary women who instilled resilience, resistance and greatness in their sons. In The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells three stories that are often overlooked but deeply important to civil rights history. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm.īut virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, each fighting their own battles, born into the beginning of the twentieth century and a deadly landscape of racial prejudice, Jim Crow, exploitation, unpoliced violence and open police vitriol. The Three Mothers - by Anna Malaika Tubbs 15. Eye-opening, engrossing'Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible storIES of three women who raised three world-changing men. ![]() ![]() THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history. ![]()
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