danadalloway 's review for:

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

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Tubbs is absolutely right that society seeks to efface Black mothers from history, and this book struggles to redress that injustice. By writing a social history inclusive of racialized gender violence, she locates each woman in her everyday context to show how she might have behaved. Unfortunately, if you know something about these women's sons, you will not learn much new here. That is all the more reason we need more efforts like this to reclaim these lost stories of perseverance and courage.