She worked as a social worker and probation officer, and chaired numerous civic groups, readily handling financial responsibilities.

With her commitment to community service and strong leadership in activities in a segregated city, Woolfolk demonstrated how sororities could help women prepare "to create spheres of influence, authority and power within institutions that traditionally have allowed African Americans and women little formal authority and real power.

[3] This was one of the classical academic schools established in Atlanta for freedmen by missionaries from New England after the Civil War.

[1][3] Woolfolk then felt prepared to tackle Howard University, the top historically black college in the nation.

Together with Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, Woolfolk made official presentations in 1907 about the sorority to gain approval of Howard University officials — university president Wilbur P. Thirkield and deans Lewis Moore and Kelly Miller.

[1] Woolfolk graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English, magna cum laude, with honors in Latin and history.

[6] After graduating from Howard, Woolfolk enrolled at Cleveland, Ohio's Schauffler Training School for Social Service, where she majored in religion.

Taylor was on the board of directors of the Carrie Steele-Pitts Foster Home and the Community Planning Council.