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The Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights History (2022)

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James Baldwin and Burtis Baldwin

Baldwin's mother, Anna Burtis, lived from 1902 until 1999. Her son James Baldwin was diagnosed with stomach cancer and he was living in Paris at the time. She is stunned that she lived past her son but has a sense of peace about it. The subtitle of your book: How the Mothers Shaped a Nation means for all the women and mothers who are being forgotten and erased.

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