[1] Moreover, she co-founded the Azurest Syndicate Inc., a vacation destination for black middle class Americans on Sag Harbor, New York.

She was a convincing, engaged woman and she built a local network of support at Lynchburg's Eight Street Baptist church, which was a center for female political and social activities.

[3] It was there when Amaza Lee Meredith met her future companion, Dr. Edna Meade Colson, with whom she held correspondence during her entire vocational education and later moved in with in their shared home "Azurest South".

[5] It was in her first year that she met Dr. Edna Meade Colson who had an influence on Meredith's education through supporting her with advice and recommending pedagogical literature.

During this time she also came in contact with the new negro movement and grew into it as a young, educated black woman who disagreed with the existing stereotypes.

[6][4] After she completed the "Summer School Certificate," Meredith started teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Botetourt County, Virginia, called the Indian Rock.

[9] She spent two years in the village despite the fact that she found the circumstances alarmingly bad, and the black community "dispossessed, disenfranchise and complacent.

"[4] Here she built the Parents-Teachers-Association, which worked in association with the Negro Organization Society of Virginia and was meant to improve the schools situation.

[4][3][13] One of her students, Stafford W. Evans, became during World War II staff illustrator of The Mananan, the base newsletter for Manana Barracks at Pearl Harbor.

Manana was the largest posting of African-American servicemen in the world, but prior to his arrival there, he was alone in a Jim Crow Navy that he describes to Meredith in sometimes chilling details.

)[11] The fact that most of Meredith's historical work has been lost, Virginia State University continues to honor her famous achievements.

While her exact number of works is unknown, Amaza has been attributed with architectural design for houses in Virginia, Texas, and New York.

Azurest South, demonstrates her fascination with the avant-garde design, her familiarity with modern materials and construction details, and her courage in expressing non-traditional ideas in the public eye of the state's first land grant college for African Americans.

[22] The archived documentation and remains of Azurest have inspired intersectional research on race, queerness, and spatial design during the Jim Crow Era.

[3] In 1947, Meredith started developing a 120 lot subdivision in Sag Harbor called Azurest North together with her older sister Maude.

[9] Some of her artwork was exhibited in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and galleries in New York and North Carolina, some is still displayed in the Gillfield Baptist Church or hangs in residents’ homes.

They contain documents, photos, letters, news clippings, and ephemera, which combine to form a rich source of research on their topics.

[14] To further add to her prestigious achievements Azurest South was documented during Women's Month 2001 by the National Register of Historic Places.

In describing this extraordinary woman's talents, Azurest South was called a “significant landmark of African-American material culture and design.”[20]