Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Bio

(1941-2018) Historian. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Columbia, Maryland. She was the author of seven books.

Full Name

Locations

Queens

Author's Timeline

1941

Rosalyn Marian Terborg was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 22, 1941.

1951

Dr. Terborg-Penn's family moved to Queens, New York, in 1951 and she graduated from John Adams High School in 1959.

1963

Dr. Terborg-Penn received a bachelor's degree in history from Queens College in 1963.

1987

Women in Africa and the African Diaspora
Howard University Press
0882581716 / 978-0882581712
Nonfiction written with Sharon Harley.

1998

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920
Indiana University Press
0253333784 / 978-0253333780
Nonfiction.

2018

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn died at her home in Columbia, Maryland, on December 25, 2018.

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