OUR SECRET SOCIETY

WINNER 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering Beaux Arts Ball the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years a glamorous soiree rivaling today s Met Gala drawing America s wealthy and cultured both Black and white Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement the luncheons galas cabarets 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 or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon With her husband Henry Lee Moon the longtime publicist for the NAACP Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period Vivacious and intellectually curious Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry As the president of the National Urban League Guild the f