She was suspended without pay from her job as procurement clerk in 1954 for supposedly having joined a subversive organization, the Washington Bookshop Association.

[2] She fought the charges—having never joined the organization but attended a pair of public lectures there—and was reinstated at her job which she retired from on disability in 1959.

She published two additional anthologies Ebony Rhythm in 1948, and New Negro Voices in 1970 which featured works by Nikki Giovanni and Carolyn Rodgers.

"[7] The organization was established at 117 R Street NE in Washington D.C. and consisted of Murphy as Director, as well as Myrtle Henry and Jessie Roy.

[8] The organization was later renamed The Minority Research Center Inc.[2] In 1977, the Beatrice M. Murphy Foundation was created by her friends to encourage the collection and dissemination of books by and about Black people.

Murphy also donated 1700 books from her personal collection to improve DC Public Library's Black Studies Center holdings.