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This one didn’t work for me on audio. I had been listening to it on my commute, but then the Thanksgiving break hit. When I returned to work after, I just didn’t feel excited about the thought of finishing it. While I like the concept, it wasn’t holding my attention and I expected more.
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A brilliant, indispensable book. Anna Malaika Tubbs’ “The Three Mothers” culminates years of difficult scholarship rescuing Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin (the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, respectively) from the obscurity of footnotes and margins and instead placing them firmly where they belong: center stage in our understanding of the United States in the 20th century. The book is a telling of these three, very different women’s biographies in tandem, and it is also an argument for paying greater historical respect and attention to the role of Black motherhood in creating the modern world.
I learned a TON from reading this book (almost every sentence introduced me to new information). It introduced me to three fascinating, complex women who forever reshaped America, greatly enriched my understanding of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the 20th century, and added a great deal of texture to my understanding of their famous sons. I think that most readers would have the same experience. Malaika Tubbs is assiduous in chronicling her subjects and gives us very full portraits of their lives, and she is persuasive in her case for treating mothers (Black mothers specifically) as inexcusably discounted agents of history.
Refreshing, pioneering, urgent, accessible scholarship. Can’t recommend highly enough.
I learned a TON from reading this book (almost every sentence introduced me to new information). It introduced me to three fascinating, complex women who forever reshaped America, greatly enriched my understanding of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the 20th century, and added a great deal of texture to my understanding of their famous sons. I think that most readers would have the same experience. Malaika Tubbs is assiduous in chronicling her subjects and gives us very full portraits of their lives, and she is persuasive in her case for treating mothers (Black mothers specifically) as inexcusably discounted agents of history.
Refreshing, pioneering, urgent, accessible scholarship. Can’t recommend highly enough.
A very long essay
This book was very informative, but read more like a very long essay than a book. My favorite part was the last part where the author connected more with the reader and brought a personal side to the story.
This book was very informative, but read more like a very long essay than a book. My favorite part was the last part where the author connected more with the reader and brought a personal side to the story.
A book that contains important information, that I connected with, and that I'm still thinking about days later. I urge everyone to read this and learn.
I appreciate this book and how we were able to experience the amazing Black women and their influence on these great minds. Thank you for writing a story that needed to be written.
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I had never stopped to wonder about the families that produced MLK, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, and am glad to have learned about their backgrounds. Unfortunately, this book is twice as long as necessary.
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Was more a look at bipoc motherhood than a biography, and that is ok