“I am tired of us not being recognized, I am tired of being erased. “I am tired of Black women being hidden,” she writes. Although “almost entirely ignored throughout history…ignored in ways that are blatantly obvious when the fame of their sons is considered,” these women, Tubbs asserts, deserve attention because they represent the struggles faced by Black women from the early 1900s through the 1960s-and, attests the author, citing her own experience, even in the present. In her debut book, sociology doctoral candidate Tubbs, a Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Scholar, offers informative, admiring biographical portraits of Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin, women who shaped the lives and work of their sons Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. A welcome biography of three noted civil rights icons who were indelibly influenced by their mothers.
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