 Milius continued to explore gender, race, and class through woodcuts based on historical motifs that depicted the lives of black women abolitionists.In 1941 she exhibited in her fifth Artist's Union exhibit, in Massachusetts, displaying her work "Marathon Race", which was described as an "amusing bit of abstraction,".Milius and Lubell remained members of the Communist Party of the United States of America until they either were forced to leave (Cecil Lubell) or left of their own accord after the Kruschov speech of 1956 (Winifred), but nonetheless they and their family were affected by the Red Scare Cold War policies.