Our Secret Society : Amistad : 9780063115712 : 0063115719 : 23 Nov 2023 : An engrossing social history and memoir 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 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 and individuals, 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. As The president of the National Urban Leag