Anna H. Jones taught elocution at
Wilberforce University in Ohio from 1885 to 1892. She taught high school and was a school principal in Kansas City, Missouri, She was president of the Missouri Association of Colored Women's Clubs from 1903 to 1906. She raised the money to build a
YMCA in Kansas City. She represented the Kansas City Colored Women's League in the talks that resulted in the creation of the
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. She wrote three biographical sketches for
Hallie Q. Brown's
Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (1926). Jones traveled to London in 1900 for the
First Pan-African Conference, in the company of
Anna Julia Cooper,
Fannie Barrier Williams, and
Ella D. Barrier, among others. Jones and Cooper were the only two African-American women to address the Conference; Jones presented a paper titled "The Preservation of Race Individuality." She later corresponded with
W. E. B. DuBois. In 1905 her two-part essay "A Century's Progress for the American Colored Woman" appeared in consecutive issues of
Voice of the Negro magazine. Her short essay "Women Suffrage and Social Reform" appeared in a 1915 issue of
The Crisis. Jones was a member of
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Katherine D. Tillman wrote a poem about Jones, titled "My Queen". ==Personal life==