[1] She joined many women's clubs in Chicago and was an early member of the Ida B.
[1] Starting in 1914, Bills served as the editor of the club newspaper, The Alpha Suffrage Record.
[1] She later served as a writer in the 1930s for The Alpha Suffrage Record's "Clubs and Society" column.
[1] Her most famous publication was in 1915 on the film premiere of The Birth of a Nation in Chicago, an American silent epic drama film which is part fiction and part history, chronicling the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth and the relationship of two families in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras over the course of several years.
[1] Bills reviewed the film with a critical lens and debunked much of the storyline for a lack of historical facts, while reflecting on her own experiences as a Black woman living during the Reconstruction era in the American South.