New Book Seeks To Restore Hidden Histories Of 'The Three Mothers' Of MLK, Malcolm X, James Baldwin
Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Anna Malaika Tubbs about her new book, “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation.”
Book Excerpt: ‘The Three Mothers’
By Anna Malaika Tubbs
Writing about Black motherhood while becoming one gave me a much deeper perspective than I had before. As my own life and body transformed, it became even more important to me to tell Alberta’s, Berdis’s, and Louise’s stories before they became mothers. Their lives did not begin with motherhood; on the contrary, long before their sons were even thoughts in their minds, each woman had her own passions, dreams, and identity. Each woman was already living an incredible life that her children would one day follow. Their identities as young Black girls in Georgia, Grenada, and
