Professor and Department Head Jane Rhodes cited in New York Times

Professor and Department Head Jane Rhodes is cited in a New York Times Sunday Review article on the contributions of African-American women being overlooked in the history of the woman suffrage movement. Material from Rhodes’ book “Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century” is highlighted in the section on Shadd Cary, who was a writer, educator, lawyer, abolitionist and the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper.