[2] An African-American physician during the Jim Crow era, she provided medical services to underserved black communities.

[11] She served on the City Lunacy Commission, and on the board of directors for the Phillis Wheatley branch of the YWCA.

[13] During World War II, she worked in the student clinic at Hampton Institute,[14] presided over a fundraising concert,[15] and organized a nutrition program for Richmond homemakers, to maximize healthy meals under rationing.

[17] In 1932, on her way home from attending the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she was honored in Chicago at a luncheon hosted by fellow Black doctor Lillian Singleton Dove.

[17] Her 1938 Bausch & Lomb microscope was displayed at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center in Richmond in 2018.