.annas_tea_ wants us to acknowledge the contributions of mothers: “These men that we still revere couldn’t have been who they were without the women who came before them.”
author Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the stories of Berdis Baldwin, Alberta King, and Louise Little—the mothers of James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X respectively. Although these men are some of the most recognizable names in the Civil Rights Movement, writes Tubbs, the movement didn’t start with them.
Tubbs’s mother was a lawyer and activist who emphasized the important role of mothers in society. “She always said that we need to pay more attention to how mothers were being treated in different societies and that the treatment of mothers was an indicator for how successful those communities could be on every other kind of scale and measurement,” Tubbs told.
Alberta King believed in the intersection of faith and social justice, although she did not have the word ‘non-violence’ as her son would later. Louise Little believed in “non-apologetic resistance and achieving by any means necessary Black self-sufficiency,” similarly to her son’s teachings. Berdis Baldwin was a writer, just like her son.
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