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Mollie Moon probably wasn’t a name you learned about when you studied the Harlem Renaissance in high school English class, but she was the dynamic force behind much of the money that funded the Civil Rights Movement for decades. Moon was a Black woman who became the grand dame of New York society in the 1940s and ’50s. She raised millions to support civil rights through galas,