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 […]

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