Alpha Kappa Alpha Authors: Bettye Collier-Thomas to hold book signing in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA—On Sunday, April 18, 2010 Betty Collier-Thomas will have a book signing of her newest publication, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African-American Women and Religion. This will take place at 2pm at the Free Library of Philadelphia during their book festival. The event is free and open to the public.

Bettye Collier-Thomas is a professor in the Department of History at Temple University and an important figure in the study of African-American and women’s history. She formerly served as the founding Executive Director of the Mary McLeod Bethune National Historic Site, the nation’s first museum and archives for Black women’s history.

Her previous nonfiction books include Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons and Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights–Black Power Movement. In her new book, which a New York Times reviewer calls “a revelation,” Collier-Thomas shows the important roles Black women played in developing African-American religion, politics, and culture.