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Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

By Dr. Sheri Parks • Mar 29, 2019

(Public domain) -- Rosalyn Terborg-Penn is shown onstage during Temperance and Woman Suffrage: Reform Movements and the Women Who Changed America, a panel discussion at the U.S. National Archives on March 31, 2015.

Through her scholarship and teaching career, Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn chronicled the work of African-American suffragists, whose contributions had largely been ignored or erased in the official histories of the movement.

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