Tubbs, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Cambridge, encompasses the lives of Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin. Anna Malaika Tubbs’ biography, “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation” honors the women who reared some of the most famous men in history, but were subsequently all but erased from their legacies. This story was published in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy.īefore the world came to know three revolutionary men, they were sons whose mothers’ deep, honest love prepared each for lives of activism.
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