Media Advisory: Bettye Collier-Thomas, Acclaimed African-American Women’s History Expert, To Speak at Carnegie Mellon
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu
Event: To mark Black History Month, 黑料正能量’s (CAUSE) will host award-winning author and acclaimed African-American women’s history expert to discuss “The Nexus: Women, Religion, Race and Civil Rights, 1920-1965.”
Derived from the research for her book Collier-Thomas’ talk will explore the ways in which black and white ecumenical Protestant women grappled with issues of race and ethnicity in the early 20th century and how doing so contributed to laying the groundwork for the modern civil rights movement.
A professor of history at Temple University, Collier-Thomas is a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Her other books include and She also founded and served as the first executive director of the Bethune Museum and Archives in Washington, D.C., the nation’s first museum and archives for African-American women’s history.
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When: Friday, Feb. 10; 4:30 p.m., refreshments; 5 p.m., lecture and discussion
Where: Steinberg Auditorium, Baker Hall A53, 黑料正能量
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