Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
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An engrossing social history and memoir of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball," the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years--a glamorous event rivalling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy and cultured, both Black and white.
Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked--the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement--the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families and individuals, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller.
No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. As The president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund activists battling for justice and racial equality. She was an advisor to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and with her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectual curious, this Black doyenne frequently hosted salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry.
Historian and cultural critic Tanisha Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time--a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie's larger-than-life antics through extensive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews, including with Mollie's daughter and namesake.
Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, ruled by its own Who's Who of African Americans in politics, sports, entertainment, and society. It is both a portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the late 1930s through the early 1960s, and a strategic blueprint today's activists can emulate to achieve amazing results.
Our Secret Society includes 16 pages of never-before-seen photographs.
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