[1][2] Her great-grandfather George Latimer escaped slavery in Virginia and was active in the abolition movement in Massachusetts.

[6] She and her brother Gerald[7] helped to lead the effort to preserve the Lewis H. Latimer House in Flushing;[8][9] their grandfather's home, where they played as children,[10] is now a museum on the National Register of Historic Places.

[11] She and her brother were honored by the Duquesne Light Company in 1989, for their work in bringing Latimer's story to a new generation.

[12] She co-wrote a middle-grades book about her grandfather,[13] Lewis Latimer: Scientist (1994, with Lily Patterson, foreword by Coretta Scott King).

[17] The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York, where she was a member, created a Winifred Latimer Norman Award in the Area of Social Justice in her honor.