[2] She was educated at Bromley Mission, an episcopal school, then moved to Paris to study fashion.

[1] In the Executive Mansion she set up a museum with artefacts relating to her husband's presidency as well as previous ones.

[2] More significantly, Tubman used her influential role as First Lady raise funds and awareness for philanthropic and humanitarian causes, including: orphans, the homeless, the mentally ill.[2] In August 1957, a new orphanage funded by the Antoinette Tubman Children's Welfare Foundation was opened in Virginia.

[5] After her husband's death in July 1971, his estimated fortune of $220 million (~$1.27 billion in 2023) made her one of the richest women in the world.

[6] She established the William V S Tubman Memorial Museum on their estate, east of Monrovia in Totota, based on the collection she founded early in their marriage.