Book description
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 event rivalling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy…
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This is a revealing and exciting biography about one of the Civil Rights Movement’s unsung heroes.
I was really drawn to this book because I had heard of Mollie Moon but didn’t know much about her life. And what a life it was. Mollie Moon faced sexism and racism head-on with a determination to fight. The epitome of genius and glamour, she literally knew “everybody who was anybody.”
She traveled to Moscow with Langston Hughes, moved into the Black political circles of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration, and forged ties to Martin Luther King. Have you ever wondered how the Civil Rights…
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