Welcome to Significant Others.

I'm Liza Powell O'Brien, and today we're talking about the kind of significant

other pretty much everyone has, moms, but not just any moms.

The amazing author, advocate, and scholar Anna Maliket-Tubs is here to talk about the remarkable

subjects of her book, The Three Mothers, How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm

X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation.

Anna, thank you so much for joining us today.

Your three subjects are all equally fascinating and important, so why don't you tell us

where you would like to begin?

Oh, I let that question.

It's so hard.

But first, thank you for having me.

I'm honored to be here and Happy Mother's Day, everybody.

Yes.

Yes, so I'll just start with alphabetical order by first name, so there's no favorites

or anything, but I'll give a little background on each of them.

And Alberta Williams King is where we will begin.

This is Dr. MLK Jr.'s mother, and she was born in Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1900s.

She was influenced by her parents, primarily, who were the leaders of Ebenezer Baptist

Church.

So up until this book, we understood this incorrectly.

A lot of people used to think that this was MLK Senior's Church, but in fact, it was

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