Among a small cadres of black women historians whose work paved the way for my own was Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. Her pioneering work on black women in the women’s suffrage movement is a text to which I still return and teach every chance I get. Dr. Terborg-Penn sadly passed away in December 2018, just after so many of us had enjoyed her insight and wit during the 40th anniversary meeting of the Association of Black Women Historians, an organization she had helped to found. I was grateful for the chance to pay a small trip to her here in the New York Times. RIP.