He later moved to what is now Alabama State where he stayed for several years before he accepted a job with the Standard Life Insurance Company to organize and run their printing division.

[1] From 1951 to 1953 she taught economics and English at Shiga University in Japan, where she learned Japanese and co-authored a Japanese-English phrase book.

[3] She worked alongside Thurgood Marshall and helped him prepare the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case.

[3] She also served as a consultant for Encyclopædia Britannica and Vice President of the Phelps Stokes Fund.

She was also a trustee of the Cottonwood Foundation and worked with the United States Civil Rights Commission as the Scholar-in-Residence.

[4] In 1962, Smythe-Haith was appointed to the State Department's Advisory Council for African American Affairs by President John F.

From 1981 to 1985, she taught at Northwestern University and served as the Melville J. Heskovits professor and director of African studies.