![]() ![]() Very different from one another, with different struggles and different joys, the “three mothers” embodied and deliberately conveyed to their children the qualities that made them notable: resilience, a clear-eyed view of injustice, and a fierce commitment to equality. Anna Malaika Tubbs writes about about women who gave birth to extraordinary men and who have been presented as footnotes that are out of context.'. In Tubbs’s treatment, those women are worth knowing foremost for the work that they made of their own lives, not their sons’ achievements. MLK Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin are household names, but what about their mothers This hour, author Anna Malaika Tubbs explores how these three women. That representation, Tubbs shows, is a disservice not just to the work of those men-it’s easier to dismiss ideas imagined to come from a lone reformer than those understood to have deep communal roots-but, crucially, to the women who raised them. ![]() ![]() Alberta King, Louise Little, Berdis Baldwin: Their sons became voices of generational significance, figures so great that the extent to which their genius was tied to the specific influence of their families and communities can be overlooked in popular imagination. ![]()
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