Bettye Collier-Thomas is Professor of History at Temple University. She is the author of Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons and co-editor of Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights–Black Power Movement.

“Bettye Collier-Thomas tells the untold stories of scores of religious and politically active black women, their organizations, informal gatherings and intellectual movements. For readers who imagine that the religious and political activism of Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune and Rosa Parks is exceptional, [this] book will be a revelation.”-The New York Times Book Review

Bettye Collier-Thomas is Professor of History at Temple University. She is the author of Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons and co-editor of Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights–Black Power Movement.

“Bettye Collier-Thomas tells the untold stories of scores of religious and politically active black women, their organizations, informal gatherings and intellectual movements. For readers who imagine that the religious and political activism of Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune and Rosa Parks is exceptional, [this] book will be a revelation.”-The New York Times Book Review

Bettye Collier-Thomas is Professor of History at Temple University. She is the author of Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons and co-editor of Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights–Black Power Movement.

“Bettye Collier-Thomas tells the untold stories of scores of religious and politically active black women, their organizations, informal gatherings and intellectual movements. For readers who imagine that the religious and political activism of Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune and Rosa Parks is exceptional, [this] book will be a revelation.”-The New York Times Book Review