I'm Alice Roberts, author of Beard an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.

In this book I shed fresh light on how people lived by examining the stories of the dead,

from Roman cremations and graveside feasts to richly furnished Anglo-Saxon graves and

to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales.

The story is available now in paperback, ebook and audio.

Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's

bestselling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corthorn.

The names are Bert or King, Louise Little and Burdese Baldwin and now widely forgotten.

But these remarkable women are worthy of our attention.

The mothers of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and James Baldwin respectively.

They are the subject of Anima Liker Tubb's debut book Three Mothers.

It shines a light on these neglected women and reveals how each lived an extraordinary life

and taught their sons how to resist racism and fight for change.

As Subelitor, Brianna Davies gave Anna a call to find out more.

In your book Three Mothers, you talk about the lives of three women that a lot of our

listeners might not know much about.

There's Alberta King, Louise Little and Burdese Baldwin.

To start off with, can you briefly introduce us to these three women and tell us who their sons are?

They are the mothers of Martin Luther King, the mother of Martin Luther King,

and James Baldwin.

In their own right, they were incredibly talented, educated, passionate young women

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