From 1899 to 1906, Ms. Bazoline Usher attended Atlanta University, first at the preparatory school and then the university where she was taught and highly favored by W.E.B DuBois.

Upon graduating from Atlanta University, Usher taught math and science at American Missionary Association High School in Virginia from 1906 to 1911 since she could not find work in Atlanta. She then returned to Atlanta and taught seventh grade in Atlanta until she transferred to Wesley Avenue School to serve as the school’s principal for five years.
She then transferred to the newly built Booker T. Washington High School where she served as the school’s first assistant principal until 1929. In 1929, she became the principal of David T. Howard Grammar School where she served for 14 years.
In 1943 she founded Girl Scout troops for African-American girls in Atlanta, some of the earliest in the South.

In 1944 she was appointed Director and Supervisor of Negro Schools for the Atlanta School System, the highest position an African American had ever attained in Atlanta schools. She was also the first African American to have an office at Atlanta City Hall.

Source: Neighborhood Portraits: Men and Women Who Built and Inspired Our Community “The Remarkable Miss Usher”. Atlanta Constitution