Mollie Jr. and her mother were the first living African-American women inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.
She and her husband, Elicious Scott Jr., taught and connected children and adults with Western culture and agriculture.
[2] Mollie Jr. graduated from Houston's Jack Yates High School in 1963, and attended Texas Southern University for four years pursuing a business major.
She has been interviewed on radio and TV, for newspapers, and for magazines including Texas Highways, Ebony, and Essence, having been portrayed as "a woman in a nontraditional occupation".
[4] The American Cowboy Museum was opened on her family's Texas ranch before Texas schools were racially integrated, in order to give African-American children to give them a taste of ranch life and to acquaint the public with the role that has been played by blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and women in the West history.