Our Secret Society

Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Tanisha Ford Paperback BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/African American & Black An engrossing social history and biography of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, Harlem socialite and civil rights philanthropist extraordinaire. “Tanisha Ford expertly uses the extravagant life of Mollie Moon to tell the hidden history of the Civil Rights Movement: a complicated tale of how the movement was funded. Captivating. Gripping. Smart.”—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a highly significant yet long-overlooked aspect of the Civil Rights Movement: the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, card parties, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better than Mollie Moon.