How Black socialite Mollie Moon raised millions to fund the civil rights movement
Josephine Baker (left), Mollie Moon (right) and the newly crowned Miss Beaux Arts Ball, 1960. E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts/Detroit Public Library/Amistad imprint of Harper Collins When we think of the Civil Rights Movement, opulent parties are probably not the first thing that come to mind. But it turns out, they were a big part of the fight for racial justice — especially the events organized by Black socialite Mollie Moon in the 1940s, […]
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