Rosalyn Terborg-Penn | |
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![]() Terborg-Penn at the U.S. National Archives in 2015 | |
Born | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | October 22, 1941
Died | December 25, 2018 Columbia, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 77)
Academic background | |
Education | John Adams High School |
Alma mater | Queens College, City University of New York; George Washington University; Howard University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (October 22, 1941 – December 25, 2018) was an American professor of history and author. Terborg-Penn specialized in African-American history and black women's history. Her book African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850–1920 was a ground-breaking work that recovered the histories of black women in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was a faculty member of Morgan State University.[1][2]