Black Women & the Vote: A Tribute to Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

In honor of Women's History Month, the Department of History & Government presents a panel discussion documenting black females’ role in the fight for suffrage, the racism inherent in the movement, the significance of the African American women’s vote, and the impact of Dr. Terborg-Penn as a scholar and educator.

On the hundredth anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting suffrage to women, the History & Government department honors Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, professor emerita of Morgan State University (Baltimore, MD). Dr. Terborg-Penn, who died on Christmas Day 2018, was the preeminent scholar on black women and the fight for suffrage through her monograph African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. This scholarship dispelled the myth that African American women did not participate in the women’s rights movement and that black men did not support suffrage for black women.

Featured Panelists:

Bettye J. Gardner
David Taft Terry
Tamara L. Brown
Karen Cook Bell
Sammye Miller
David L. Reed
Carmen V. Walker

Sponsored by: The Women's Studies Program & Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society