'Our Secret Society' highlights fundraising efforts behind the Civil Rights Movement

Tanisha C. Ford, a historian, author and professor of history at The Graduate Center at City University of New York, is the author of the new book, "Our Secret Society." The book profiles Mollie Moon and others who organized fundraising events for the civil rights movement. (Photo courtesy of Tanisha C. Ford)

Tanisha C. Ford is fascinated with Mollie Moon and the part she played in the Civil Rights Movement.

Ford is a historian, author and professor of history at The Graduate Center at City University of New York.

She found Moon’s story to be so compelling that she penned a new book about her efforts called “Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement.”