Ballot & Beyond: Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn | African American Suffrage History

Through her historical 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. Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn work excavated these hidden stories from the historical canon, rescuing many heroic women from obscurity and adding the true diversity and challenges of the movement to the public record.