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Center for Black Visual Culture

Please join the Center for Black Visual Culture and Dr. Tanisha Ford for a discussion and signing of Dr. Ford’s book Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement.

An engrossing social history of Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban Leage Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire, Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates the highly significant and long overlooked powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the civil rights movement. Our Secret Society is nominated for an NAACP Award for Autobiography.

Tanisha C. Ford is a foremost voice speaking on the intersection of politics, economics, and culture. She makes connections between the past and the present in ways that shed new light on today’s most pressing social issues. She is Professor of History and Biography and Memoir at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Tanisha has written four books: Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (Amistad/HarperCollins 2023), Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (St. Martins, June 2019), Kwame Brathwaite: Black is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019), and the award-winning Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul (UNC Press, 2015). She is currently working on a genre-bending book about sculptor and institution builder Augusta Savage for Penguin Press’s “Significations” series.

Tanisha has received several major awards and honors. She was named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans. Her research has been supported by prestigious institutions such as New America, Emerson Collective, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and London University’s School of Advanced Study, among others..

Date:  February 27th