Jesus, Jobs, and Justice African American Women and Religion

Name: Jesus, Jobs, and Justice African American Women and Religion
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ISBN: 9781439911051

ISBN-10: 1439911053

ISBN-13: 9781439911051

Edition: 2013

Authors: Bettye Collier-Thomas

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Bettye Collier-Thomas’s groundbreaking book, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice—now available for the first time in paperback—provides a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during the centuries of American growth and change. As co-creators of churches, women were a central factor in their development. However, women often had to cope with sexism in black churches, as well as racism in mostly white denominations. Collier-Thomas skillfully shows how black church women created national organizations such as the National Association of Colored Women, the National League of Colored Republican Women, and the National Council…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 2.552
Language: English

Bettye Collier-Thomas is Professor of History and Director of the Center for African-American History and Culture at Temple University. She is the author of Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons and co-author, with V.P. Franklin, of My Soul is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965.