Dr. Collier-Thomas speaks on the interracial religious movement between the 1920s and 1950s and how it laid the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement later in the century.

A professor in the Department of History and the former director of the Temple University Center for African American Life and Culture, Dr. Bettye Collier-Thomas has written on this subject in her latest book, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion. She is also a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.