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Tanisha Ford's new book explored the untold story of Molly Moon and how she built a secret financial network that supported the civil rights movement.
In Ford's new book, Our Secret Society, Molly Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement, Tanisha Ford shares the untold story of Molly Moon.
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Episode: How A Black Socialite Raised Millions For Civil Ri...
Tanisha Ford's new book explored the untold story of Molly Moon and how she built a secret financial network that supported the civil rights movement.
In Ford's new book, Our Secret Society, Molly Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement, Tanisha Ford shares the untold story of Molly Moon.
The book is called Our Secret Society because Mollie literally helped create a secret financial network of sorts, which included, as you mentioned, wealthy, rich white donors, wealthy black elites and everyday working class black people.
My guest is Tanisha Ford, author of the new book Our Secret Society, Molly Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement.
Ford is a professor of history... She's written a new book titled Our Secret Society, Molly Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement, which explores the fundraising efforts that supported the civil rights movement.