[2] "Intent on making her mark in a big city" she went to New York after high school but the only work she found was as a maid.
[3] After three years in New York, she moved to Washington, D.C., found work in government typing pools and attended teachers' college part-time.
[1] Dean George P. Baker supported the group and approached corporations to raise additional scholarship money.
After the company closed its Washington office, she held various jobs, including stockbroker, management trainee, job-training consultant, and business professor at Bowie State.
Then, a former colleague recommended her for a job as executive vice president of Unified Services, a building maintenance business.
Her roster of clients included ABC News, Dulles Airport, Hewlett-Packard, NationsBank, Northrop Grumman and Arthur D. Little.
[4] Lambert sold Centennial One in 2001 and began a successful speaking career, and wrote a book about her experiences, The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond (published by Wiley, 2010).