Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

di Anna Malaika Tubbs (Autore)

William Collins, 2021

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history … Eye-opening, engrossing’ Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible storIES of three women who raised three world-changing men. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, each fighting their own battles, born into the beginning of the twentieth century and a deadly landscape of racial prejudice, Jim Crow, exploitation, unpoliced violence and open police vitriol. It was a society that would deny their sons’ humanity from the beginning as it had denied theirs, but Berdis, Alberta and Louise were extraordinary women who instilled resilience, resistance and greatness in their sons. They would become mothers not just to three world-famous men but to the civil rights movement itself. These women represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue. In Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs delves into the untold history of the 20th century, shedding light on the lives of three black women who played pivotal roles in shaping the civil rights movement. Their stories, deeply rooted in the American social and political landscape, are a testament to their resilience and resistance in the face of racial prejudice and unpoliced violence. For fans of Angela Y. Davis (If They Come in the Morning), Zadie Smith (Intimations), Andrea Elliott (Invisible Child), Hallie Rubenhold (The Five), and Susan Abulhawa (This Is Not a Border).

• Autore: Anna Malaika Tubbs
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 06:51:20
• Anno edizione: 2021
• Editore: William Collins
• EAN: 9780008405342

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