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          Bettye Collier-Thomas' purpose in Daughters of Thunder is "to explore the history of African American preaching women and the issues and struggles they.!

          Bettye Collier-Thomas

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          Professor, Department of History, Temple University

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          My research originally focused on African American community development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

          While researching my dissertation on "The Baltimore Black Community, 1865-1915" I uncovered a world where black women were deeply immersed in the social and political issues of the time and active participants in most community institutions.



          Quite by accident, I stumbled over a 1860s news report about the Maryland Colored Border State Convention in which one of the star participants was Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

          Bettye Collier-Thomas is Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Page 2.

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          5. As the sole female occupying the platform with well-known black male leaders such as Frederick Douglass, Harper contended for the inclusion of women in the political process.



          In 1970 Harper was virtually unknown.

          This was just the tip of the iceberg. As the research proceeded I was amazed at the extent to which black women of al