Bettye Collier-Thomas is professor of history at Temple University. Her publications include Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979 (1998), the award-winning Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (2001), and the forthcoming "Jesus, Jobs, and Justice": A History of African American Women and Religion. She founded and served as first executive director of the Bethune Museum and Archives National Historic Site, in Washington, D.C., for which she received a Conservation Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior. She is also recipient of a 2008-2009 Resident Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.

Lecture topics:

• Women, Religion, Race, and Civil Rights
• Across the Divide: Women and the Twentieth-Century Interracial Movement
• Nappy and Unhappy?: The Politics and Economics of Black Beauty Culture
• Ambivalent Personas: Stage Women and the Image of Black Womanhood
• “God Mammies”: African American Women Missionaries in Liberia

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