Contribution:
First African American to graduate from the Spencerian College of Commerce in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.(1889). First African American female Secretary for Colored Student Affairs for the National Board of the YWCA (1907-1909). This pioneer served as a national organizer for the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). During World War I, she and two other African American women became the only women workers assigned by the U.S. Army to work with 200,000 segregated black troops stationed in France. Also she was very active in the club movement and the Women's Suffrage Movement, pressuring white suffrage leaders to support the movement for black women's vote. She was also a field secretary for the NAACP, and helped organize the 4th Pan-African Congress (1927)