Anna Malaika Tubbs on the mothers of civil rights leaders

“Even before they had their sons, before they met their husbands, Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin [the mothers of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and James Baldwin respectively] were incredibly talented, educated, passionate young women. They were already dedicating themselves to the black freedom movement, which they saw as a movement happening not only in the United States, but across the world.”