[2] Pearson worked for many organizations and held positions such as the women's auxiliary president for the Dixie Highway Council of the Cumberland Divide and commissioner for the Woman's Board of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.

[1] In 1897, Pearson accepted the Chair of English at Winthrop State Normal College for Women in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she worked until 1899.

From 1901 to 1908, she held an executive position in the Woman's Congress at the Monteagle Assembly (Chautauqua) and simultaneously served as Chair of History and English at the Higbee School in Memphis, Tennessee.

[1] After the suffrage movement, she continued her academic career, serving as Dean and Chair of Philosophy and History at Southern Seminary in Buena Vista, Virginia, from 1917 to 1922.

[1] Pearson became a leading figure in the anti-suffrage movement in Tennessee after promising her dying mother to continue opposing women's suffrage.

[3] Pearson and other antis feared that women's suffrage would disrupt traditional gender roles and potentially enfranchise Black voters, which they believed would threaten white supremacy.