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She taught Latin and mathematics before her marriage in 1904.

She taught at Florida A&M Tallahassee and M Street High School, a prestigious African American college preparatory school in Washington DC. In the 1920's, M Street High School, later renamed Dunbar High School, had four African-American women who had PhDs.

Promoting black education, civil rights and woman's suffrage, Gibbs made her mark as an educator and Pan-Africanist.

Ida Gibbs Hunt had to leave her teaching job upon marriage because util 1920, married women in the public school system in Washington, D.C. were not deemed appropriate teachers for young children.

In the 1920’s, Dunbar High School in Washington D.C. had four African-American women who had PhDs, Ida Gibbs being one of them, which brought a lot of attention and traffic to the school.