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Temple historian Bettye Collier-Thomas spent a decade researching Jesus, Jobs and Justice: African-American Women and Religion, her new book that explores 200 years of black women’s experiences in America. The book provides a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism and extraordinary resilience of black women during centuries of American growth and change. Collier-Thomas explained how she began her research by collecting data on the Association of Colored Women, where she began to learn about influential women whose stories had not been told.