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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Author
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Content
265 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2021
Publisher
New York: Flatiron Books
Publication notes
A
discussion guide
is available
Description
Focuses on Berdis Baldwin, Alberta King, and Louise Little and how their experiences of prejudice and fights for social justice influenced their sons.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography
History
Politics
ISBN
9781250756121 (cloth); 9781250756138 (pap.); 9781250756114 (ebook)
Citation
Tubbs, Anna Malaika.
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation.
New York: Flatiron Books, 2021. Sylvia. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL3582.
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07-26-2024
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Review
New York Times Book Review,
Feb. 28, 2021, 16
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Baldwin, Emma Berdis Jones (d. 1999)
King, Alberta Williams (1904–74)
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King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929–68)
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