Her father was Philip H. Murray, the founder of the Colored Kentuckian, editor and proprietor of the St. Louis Advance, and the president of the Afro-American Press Association.
[13][14][15] Later, she taught English at the George Washington Carver High School and Junior College.
[19] According to the 1930 United States census, the couple's fortune had changed during the Great Depression and their home had become a boarding house with eight roomers.
[18] At the time, she lived on Rhode Island Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C.[18] Her daughter Yvette died in 1944.
[21] In 1946, Grant was charged and convicted of a wrongful death resulting from an illegal abortion.