After completing a teaching course at Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute, she taught Kentucky History in the Todd County School System, which was segregated at the time.
Noticing that her class was not aware of the African American
contributions to the Commonwealth, she started to prepare Kentucky Fact
Sheets as supplements to required text.
They were collected and formed into a manuscript in 1939, and finally published in 1982 with the title The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians: Their Heritage and Tradition.
From 1947 to 1961, she served as chief of the Washington bureau
of the Associated Negro Press. In 1947 she was a member of the Senate
and House of Representatives press galleries, and in 1948 she became a White House correspondent.
In 1961 she was named education consultant to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. From 1967 to 1970 she was as an associate editor with the President's Commission on Youth Opportunity.
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