She served on the executive committee of the Women's International Circle of Peace and Foreign Relations in 1927, which was largely responsible for organizing the fourth Pan-African Congress in New York.

[1][2] When she was six years old, her family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where her father was employed as a cook at Brown's Hotel.

[2] Following her father's promotion to head cook of the hotel, he purchased a small house for the family in 1878.

Du Bois, who had been a teacher at Wilberforce College, on May 12, 1896, at her father's home in Cedar Rapids.

[7] She served on the executive committee of the Women's International Circle of Peace and Foreign Relations in 1927, alongside Minta Bosley Allen Trotman and Addie Waites Hunton.