Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (1941–2018)
Autore di Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia
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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn was born Rosalyn Marian Terborg in Brooklyn, New York on October 22, 1941. She received a bachelor's degree in history from Queens College, a master's degree in history from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in history from Howard University. She began her teaching mostra altro career at Morgan State University in Baltimore as an instructor in 1969 and retired as a professor of history in 2006. She continued to work with graduate students and retired fully from Morgan in 2009. As a historian, she focused on the role of black women in the women's suffrage movement. She was the author of seven books including African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 and The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images written with Sharon Harley. She died on December 25, 2018 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
Opere correlate
In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History (1986) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn Marian
- Data di nascita
- 1941-10-22
- Data di morte
- 2018-12-25
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Columbia, Maryland, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Queens, New York, USA
Washington, DC, USA
Columbia, Maryland, USA - Istruzione
- Howard University (PhD | History)
George Washington University (MA | History)
Queens College (BA | History)
John Adams High School - Attività lavorative
- historian
professor (History)
researcher
writer - Organizzazioni
- Morgan State University
Association of Black Women Historians (cofounder ∙ first national director)
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
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- 6
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 277
- Popolarità
- #83,813
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 16
The long struggle for the Nineteenth Amendment was inextricably intertwined with the issue of race. Terborg-Penn has amply researched the history of Black women in the struggle for its passage. There are some prominent names that will be familiar, in particular Sojourner Truth. But there were so many more articulate Black women who struggled for universal suffrage and were tireless organizers, yet, were rebuffed by their white colleagues when it was expedient. These Black women had a double struggle - for gender and for race. Once the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, Black women (and men) found, in the South, many obstacles to registering to vote - obstacles so high that they resulted in the disenfranchisement of many Black voters.
This was a difficult book to read as it is a side of American history that we don’t see in text books. But as informed citizens we must understand it as we see it played out on our daily news.… (altro)