Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY and the author of DRESSED IN DREAMS Tanisha Ford's OUR SECRET SOCIETY: AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN BLACK POWER BROKERS, a cultural-economic history of Mollie Moon, the preeminent Black hostess of the post-World War II period, and a generation of women who pioneered many of the fundraising strategies still used by activists today; Mollie's story makes visible the world of Black women power brokers, and their behind-the-scenes political, cultural, and philanthropic influence, and how they functioned at these intersections to create the financial backbone of the Civil Rights movement, to Patrik Henry Bass at Amistad, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in winter 2023, by Tanya McKinnon at McKinnon Literary (world).