Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

WYPR - 88.1 FM Baltimore | By Dr. Sheri Parks

Published March 29, 2019 at 10:28 AM EDT

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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