Labor leader As a teacher at Berkeley in the early 1960s, Hodgson became the president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, an organization of black teachers. In 1965, the two segregated teachers unions merged, and she became the first president of the Amalgamated Bermuda Union of Teachers. In the 1960s, she worked on the Committee for Universal Adult Suffrage, which fought for equal voting rights. Her anti-racist work helped prompt the founding of the Commission for Unity and Racial Equality in the 1990s, which was later folded into the Human Rights Commission. In 1992, she co-founded the National Association of Reconciliation, an organization that helped force a national conversation on race in the 15 years of its existence. She applied several times to work at
Bermuda College and was passed over for less-qualified expatriates. But Hodgson refused to be satisfied with the end of official segregation and the ascendence to political power of black Bermudians, citing a persistent racist mentality among many Bermudians and continued disparities in the country. She allied herself with newer organizations such as Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda, whose General Council she served on until 2018, and continued to push for affirmative action and chastise the government for a lack of real progress until her death. == Death and recognition ==