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Mollie Moon

Mollie Moon photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1956.

Mollie Moon

Mollie Moon photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1956.

New book highlights untold story of the Civil Rights movement

Mollie Moon was one of the most powerful women of the Civil Rights Movement. This is her story.

Mollie Moon photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1956.

   

The new book Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement introduces readers to a figure whose story was largely overshadowed. Until now.

Reset learns more about how Moon shaped the Civil Rights Movement.

GUEST: Tanisha Ford, historian, cultural critic, author of Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement

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