You will find more reviews at Kirkus Reviews in “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation” and The New York Times in “Three Women who Helped their Sons become Civil Rights Icons”.Īdvocates for Women encourages you to read this book and join them in a discussion on Thursday, November 18 at 3 pm. This ambitious book reframes African American history, supplying the female Black experience as a much-needed perspective.” Tubbs will share her TED Talk, How Moms Shape the World, and discuss her New York Times bestselling debut, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and. In a book review the Washington Post says, “They are honored, in these pages, as the extraordinary women they were, in their own right. The mothers and their influences have been overlooked in history until Tubbs documented their lives in this book. the three mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America’s most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King.

The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs honors three women who helped shape their sons, each of which became a historically important black man in our country: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Adult Enrichment and Covenant Group Programs This stunning collective biography by scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs gives Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin the recognition they deserve, not only as the mothers who shaped Martin Luther King Jr.

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