She graduated from the New York College of Dental and Oral Surgery in 1909,[2] becoming the first black woman to gain a dentistry license in New York State.

She was president of the Business and Professional Women's Club in Harlem in 1932.

[9] She was a member of the NAACP, spoke at the YWCA and Mother Zion Church on health topics,[10] and helped to raise money for the Sojourner Truth Home for Wayward Girls.

She helped with publicity for a special midnight performance of Shuffle Along in 1921, a benefit for the NAACP.

[1][15] In 1946,[16] she became the fourth wife of dancer Ulysses "Slow Kid" Thompson, who was the widower of Florence Mills.