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After graduation from the School of the Museum of Art in Boston, she worked with textiles until a decorator told her --" You couldn't have done this, you're a colored girl.

" She began looking for a way for her name to become known and was turned down for a job at her alma mater.

She was hired by Charlotte Hawkins Brown after some initial reservations, and founded the art department at Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina.

As a prep school teacher, she coached a basketball team, taught folk dancing, and played the piano for church services.

Only one year later, she was recruited to join the art department at Howard University in Washington D. C., and remained as professor of design and watercolor painting until her retirement in 1977.

While developing her own work as an artist, she is also known as an outstanding mentor.