Title:
Our secret society : Mollie Moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement
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First edition.
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Physical Description:
xii, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780063115712
Abstract:
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.
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Language:
English
