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Our secret society : Mollie Moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement / Tanisha C. Ford.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.M66 F67 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ford, Tanisha C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moon, Mollie.
- National Urban League--History.
- National Urban League.
- Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- African American civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Fund raising--United States--History--20th century.
- Fund raising.
- Fund raisers (Persons)--United States--Biography.
- Fund raisers (Persons).
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- History
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Our secret society
- Mollie Moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
- Summary:
- Ford illuminates the powerhouse fund-raising effort that supported the Civil Rights Movement: luncheons, galas, card parties and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry. Mollie Moon lived abroad in the 1930s but came home to fight against Jim Crow segregation in the United States. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the civil rights era. Ford provides a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America and a strategic economic blueprint today's activists can emulate. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Introduction
- New Negroes in Moscow
- Berlin
- Power couple
- Civil leaders
- Becoming a fundraiser
- The Rockefeller affair
- Park Avenue elite
- Black wealth
- Cold War tensions
- Black freedom economics
- Rule with a satin glove
- Sidelined
- Nickels and dimes
- March on Washington
- Betrayed
- A reckoning
- Conclusion
- Sideways : an essay of method.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-349)
- ISBN:
- 9780063115712
- 0063115719
- OCLC:
- 1400093872
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