 She became a professor at Wilberforce in 1893, and was a frequent lecturer on African American issues and the temperance movement, speaking at the international Woman's Christian Temperance Union conference in London in 1895 and representing the United States at the International Congress of Women in London in 1899.For several years she traveled with "The Wilberforce Grand Concert Company", an organization for the benefit of Wilberforce College.She read before hundreds of audiences, and tens of thousands of people.