Career
She was editor of the Advocate, the state"s largest African-American newspaper. She was also one of the founders of Oregon"s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The couple had two sons together, George (1913-1968) and Ivan (1915-1987). During World War I, Beatrice mobilized African-American women for the war effort, as president of the Colonel Charles Young War Savings Club, and as head of a local Red Cross Auxiliary"s "knitting unit"
She graduated from Northwestern College of Law in 1922, and was one of the first black women to graduate from law school in the United States.
In 1932 she ran (unsuccessfully) for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives.
She also converted to Baha"ism in her later years. Beatrice Morrow Cannady Taylor died August 19, 1974, in Los Los Angeles
The "first book-length scholarly treatment of Beatrice Morrow Cannady":
Mangun, Kimberley (2010). A force for change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the struggle for civil rights in Oregon, 1912–1936.
Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.