during a recent virtual program hosted by the atlanta history center tubs impact mothers have of james bollen, martin luther king jr. and malcolm x and their sons. here's a portion of the program for its back so a lot of factors that contributed to their erasure. i think one of them is that yes at the time and even today record histories and people who we deem to be important as a society and the white mail so much of our stories are told to miss white mail perspective. they are not the ones were going to say yes, this black woman mattered. or let's make sure we tell her story and history. let's even record the date that she was born. two of the women were not even really sure what year they were born kind of estimates. no one recorded it. i cannot find her in any census data for example. but it's also something we speak to each of these three men care deeply about the mothers they credited their mothers with their success. they celebrated their moms because he is the best mother in the world to calls or consulate things all the ones be married next to his mother if he passover seated was hav