in history from George Washington University. In 1974, supported by a Ford Foundation Fellowship, she became the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. She won a Presidential Scholarship to attend Atlanta University, where she received the master's degree. Thomas, an educator (deceased) and writer.Ĭollier-Thomas was awarded bachelor's degree at Allen University, where she was inducted into the Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society (the black Phi Beta Kappa during segregation). She hyphenated her name upon marriage to Charles J. She thought that she would go into law, but an 11th grade teacher inspired her to become an historian instead. Her great-uncle Frank Richard Veal was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and president of the historically black Allen University ( South Carolina) and Paul Quinn College ( Texas). Her family belonged to the black middle class, with professions such as nurse, building subcontractor, and barber represented among her near relatives as well as teacher and businessman. She attended elementary schools in New York, Georgia, and Florida, and high school in Jamaica, New York. Bettye Collier-Thomas (born Bettye Marie Collier, February 18, 1941) is a scholar of African-American women's history.Ĭollier-Thomas was born the second of three children of Joseph Thomas Collier, a business executive and public school teacher, and Katherine (Bishop) Collier, a public school teacher.
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