sentences:  Her activism and support for certain racial and feminist causes started to appear around the early 1900s, where she publicly discussed the women's suffrage movement in the middle American states.in 1918, she officially held the role of field representative for the Woman's Committee of the Council of Defense, only a few years after marrying Robert J. Nelson who was a poet and a social activist as well.She significantly contributed to some African American journalism such as the "Wilmington Advocate" and "The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer".