Furthermore, she recruited a number of other black women to work for the YWCA, such as Eva del Vakia Bowles and Elizabeth Ross Haynes.

While in Europe, Hunton lived in Switzerland and then moved to Strasbourg, Germany, where she studied part-time at Kaiser Wilhelm University.

[1] When Hunton and her children moved back to America, she continued to work with the YWCA and also began to take courses at the City College of New York.

She saw efforts by the American Command to regulate the lives of black soldiers, recreating a system reminiscent of Jim Crow.

She introduced many new programs to increase the quality of the soldiers' lives, including a literacy course and a discussion series on art, music, and religion, and other topics.

[7] She was sent to a military cemetery and was ordered to oversee and comfort black soldiers who were assigned to recover the dead from the battlefield of the Meuse-Argonne and rebury them.

[8] In July 1893, she married William Alphaeus Hunton, who was working in Norfolk, Virginia, to establish YMCA for Negro youth.

From 1909 to 1910, Hunton took her children to study at the Kaiser Wilhelm University in Strasbourg, Germany, after which she enrolled in courses at the College of the City of New York.