106. The Three Mothers Who Shaped a Nation with Anna Malaika Tubbs

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In today’s episode, Sharon chats with author and scholar Anna Makaika Tubbs about the mothers of three well-known Civil Rights activists, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Anna, influenced by the Black women in Hidden Figures, began researching Black mothers, a demographic that often goes unnoticed or even erased. Through their own stories, and through their love for their sons, the mothers of these three men significantly impacted their lives. Sharon and Anna discuss the art of research, and how intricate the work is, especially when writing narrative non-fiction, and how the writer ultimately has a responsibility to relay the truth through the craft of the story.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, so happy you're here with me today. I am chatting with scholar and
0:06.8	author Anna Malaga Tubs and she has written an absolutely fascinating book called
0:11.4	The Three Mothers and you are not going to want to miss this conversation about
0:18.0	the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr. and other famous men from the Civil Rights
0:23.8	Movement and how they shaped their sons and how mothers shaped the world. So let's
0:30.6	dive in. I'm Sharon McMan and welcome to the Sharon Says So Podcast. I'm so
0:38.4	excited to have you here today because this book has been absolutely fascinating
0:43.4	and I'm so excited to share with people who listen some of the history that
0:49.0	you have studied some of the really important themes that you bring up that
0:53.0	apply to all of us today. So thank you so much for joining us Anna. Thank you for
0:56.8	having me. It's my pleasure. I've been looking forward to it. Can you tell
1:00.4	everybody first of all what you do, what you study and then tell us about your
1:04.6	book because I'm so excited to talk about it. Absolutely. So I'm Anna Malaga Tubs. I
1:09.0	am the author of The Three Mothers, have the mothers of MLK Jr. Malcolm X and James
1:14.0	Baldwin shaped the nation. I did my undergraduate work at Stanford University.
1:18.1	I majored in anthropology and then I did my master's at the University of
1:22.3	Cambridge in multi-disciplinary gender studies and my PhD is in sociology
1:27.5	also from the University of Cambridge and I was very fortunate to be a
1:31.4	Bill and Linda Gates Cambridge scholar. With that in mind I would love to
1:36.4	talk more about your book. What made you feel like I need to write a book about
1:42.9	Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother. Tell me more about how you came to that
1:47.6	subject. Yes. So you know I feel like with any big accomplishment that we have in
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