“Protestant Women, Ecumenism, and Interracial Organizing in the United States, 1920-1965”
Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas
Professor of History, Temple University
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:00 pm
Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall
(followed by a reception and book signing in the atrium)
“Black Christian Women and the Protestant Interracial Movement” is derived from the research Bettye Collier-Thomas conducted for Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion. It explores the ways in which black and white ecumenical Protestant women grappled with issues of race and ethnicity in the early twentieth century and how in doing so they contributed to laying the groundwork for the modern civil rights movement.
Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas is Professor in the Department of History at Temple University. Currently she is a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center where she is working on a history of African American women and politics. She is the author of the award-winning Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion and the co-editor (with V. P. Franklin) of Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement.
Sponsored by:
Women’s & Gender Studies Program
Pan-African Studies Program
Theological School
Drew Diversity Committee
Department of Religion
Department of History
Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
The Black Ministerial Caucus (BMC) of the Theological School
Kuumba, the Pan-African Student Organization of Drew University
Pan-African Studies Alumni/ae
Pi Theta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., Morris County