[10] Prior to her article, the State Police had a bad reputation for their role after the American Civil War.
The state police supported local law enforcement, who were not equipped to manage the level of violence throughout Texas, as needed to suppress crime.
[13] In 1971, she received the Martha Washington Award for her work for the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission as a Research Historian.
[15] Malone was a leader in the ethnographic study of the Magnolia Plantation, which is part of the Cane River Creole National Historical Park.
[16] She wrote Sweet Chariot (1992) about households and families of enslaved people in the 19th century, based upon the research of 155 slave communities located in Louisiana.