Last Updated on April 17, 2022
Resident Donna Martin’s review of Resistance Women: A Novel The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs [New York: Macmillan, 2021], is scheduled for Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 7 PM in the Auditorium.
Who are the mothers who birthed Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin? All have traveled the road toward obscurity. But they are now not forgotten. The author has written a compelling book about them and their relationships with their sons. She has brilliantly set their stories within the social situations in which they were born, grew as children, and moved into maturity.
The author has accomplished this by relating to the varied experiences of these women. She includes accurate research and historical storytelling.
Not all three mothers were born in the United States; however, all of them experienced the Jim Crow South. They were dedicated to their children and survived the unspeakable deaths of their sons.
This thought-provoking book is an historical, personal, biographic, empathy-raising account. Join us as we look at it in depth.
The book by Anna Malaika Tubbs was a New York Times Bestseller.
Resident Donna Martin, a retired pastor and hospice chaplain, worked for many years in community outreach. Her life as mother and grandmother keeps her busy trying to save the planet for future generations.
Janet Neer and Ellyn Loy, Book Review Coordinators