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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

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American historian (1941-2018)

United StatesWritersLived 1941 to 2018 · aged 77
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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn was an American professor of history and author. Terborg-Penn specialized in African-American history and black women's history.

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Terborg-Penn in front of the Anna J. Cooper exhibit at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, 1985Terborg-Penn in front of the Anna J. Cooper exhibit at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, 1985

Awards 1

Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize

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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn 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.

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United States
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Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1941 to 2018 · aged 77
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7 languages

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