At Manhattan's piers, docks and railway stations, volunteers offered assistance to female travelers who often fell prey to unscrupulous employment agents and con artists.
She conducted detailed research into the working conditions of young African American women often by passing as a white person to obtain information on schemes and organized rings.
The aim of the employment placement service of the White Rose Mission was to furnish skilled, circumspect domestic workers to middle-class homes.
Considered one of the most unusual and important early collections of special materials about Black people, the White Rose Mission's library included a 1773 edition of the poems of Phillis Wheatley, an 1859 volume of the Anglo-African Magazine and a first edition of An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child.
[4] Lectures were regularly held at the Mission and in 1908 "New Negro Movement" founder, Hubert Harrison, a writer, orator, educator, critic and political activist, offered race history classes.