A review by madamvonsassypants
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

4.0

A very forthright and clear insight into the women that shaped the lives of such revolutionary Black men in America. Their activism wasn't born in a vacuum, and the lives of Bertis, Alberta, and Louise prove that. As a mother trying to raise kids who not only see and acknowledge inequities and injustices in the world, and then work to change them, what these women endured in their times and then and taught is awe-inspiring. It offered me a valuable perspective into the lives of James, Malcolm, and Martin Luther that I haven't gleaned from other works thus far. The author did a really admirable job not only in the extensive amount of research required for this compilation, but the broader context of the world in which these people lived and how it likely affected them and their communities.