She wrote the column Dis 'n' Dat for the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville and The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, where she commented on political, social, and economic issues in the United States.
[5] Ogden's father helped engineer the disfranchisement of African-Americans in Mississippi in the 1890s and her mother was a prominent socialite who authored a book on the history of Bolivar County that glorified the Antebellum South and the Confederate States of America.
[8] Like her mother, Ogden was a leader in her local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, where she networked with other society women and led a movement to celebrate and preserve Mississippi's Confederate history.
"[1] In 1952 she publicly expressed her disappointment and frustration with Mississippi's male political leaders who had voted for Adlai Stevenson, a liberal politician, to represent the Democrats as the party's presidential nominee.
"[1] Although Ogden insisted that her work was inspired by conservative principles and not racial issues, her activism coincided with key moments of the Civil Rights Movement and opposed the overturning of Jim Crow laws.
[1] In 1954 she opposed the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, ending segregation in public schools, calling it "the most outrageous seizure of power in all the history of our country, worthy of Stalin and Russia.
[1] In 1962 she helped found Women for Constitutional Government, an organization born out of the Ole Miss riot of 1962, which occurred when the University of Mississippi decided to integrate.