Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn

Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia ( Book )
10 editions published between 1993 and 1994 in English and held by 2,357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is a comprehensive guide to the lives of 641 individual black women, most of whom are significant on a national level. There are also entries to more than 150 general topics and organizations involving Black women. Listed alphabetically, the signed entries have bibliographies and many have photographs. The length of the articles vary from one or two columns to multiple pages, especially for the topical entries. Entries are balanced and easily comprehensible. The appendices include a chronology, a classified bibliography, including a directory of research centers, and the biographies classified by occupations. There is an extensive index. Recommended as a first purchase among the new biographical sources about Black women for high school libraries

The Columbia guide to African American history since 1939 by Robert L Harris ( )
12 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 1,458 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marian Anderson's famous 1939 concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial was a watershed moment in the struggle for racial justice. Beginning with this event, Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn chart the historical efforts of African Americans to address racism and inequality. They explore the rise of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and the national and international contexts that shaped their ideologies and methods. They consider how changes in immigration patterns have complicated the conventional ""black/white"" dichotomy in American society and discuss the often

The Afro-American woman : struggles and images ( Book )
10 editions published between 1978 and 1997 in English and held by 1,219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

African American women in the struggle for the vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn ( Book )
11 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 1,038 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This study of African American women's roles in the suffrage movement breaks new ground. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from many original documents to take a comprehensive look at the African American women who sought the right to vote. She discovers numerous Black suffragists previously unknown. Analyzing the women's own stories, she examines why they joined the woman suffrage movement in the United States and how they participated in it - with white women, Black men, as members of African American women's organizations, or simultaneously in all three. Terborg-Penn further discusses their various levels of interaction and types of feminist philosophy. Noting that not all African American woman suffragists were from elite circles, Terborg-Penn finds representation from working-class and professional women as well.They came from all parts of the nation. Some employed radical, others conservative means to gain the right to vote. Black women, however, were unified in working to use the ballot to improve not only their own status, but the lives of Black people in their communities. Drawing from innumerable sources, Terborg-Penn argues that sexism and racism prevented African American women from voting and from full participation in the national suffrage movement. Following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, state governments in the South, enacted policies which disfranchised African American women, with many white suffragists closing their eyes to the discriminatory acts. Despite efforts to keep Black women politically powerless, Terborg-Penn contends that the Black suffrage was a source of empowerment. Every political and racial effort to keep African American women disfranchised met with their active resistance until Black women achieved full citizenship

Women in Africa and the African diaspora ( Book )
13 editions published between 1987 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 895 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Afro-Americans in the struggle for woman suffrage by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn ( )
5 editions published between 1977 and 1990 in English and held by 35 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A special mission : the story of Freedmen's Hospital, 1862-1962 by Thomas C Holt ( Book )
1 edition published in 1975 in English and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Black women's history at the intersection of knowledge and power : ABWH's twentieth anniversary anthology ( Book )
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Frederick Douglass and the woman's rights movement by Benjamin Quarles ( Book )
1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The James Van Horn kindred, 1800-1980 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn ( Book )
1 edition published in 1982 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide