[1] In the 1960s she participated in the civil rights movement and was arrested in Talladega, Alabama for riding at the front of a bus.
[1] Upon graduating from high school, Moten-Foster moved to Birmingham and began her career as a radio journalist.
[1] She subsequently moved to Miami, where she co-hosted an all-night jazz show with Flip Wilson on radio station WFAB.
[5] Moten-Foster's resulting 1976 book 200 Years of Black Cookery is remembered as an example of the renaissance in African-American cuisine in the 1970s.
[3][7] Moten-Foster moved from Indianapolis to Muncie in the early 1980s, subsequently marrying a Ball State University professor named Robert O.
[1] Moten-Foster's death was remarked upon, among others, by then-United States Representative Mike Pence, who read a memorial to her on the House floor.