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== Activism ==
Stafford was very active in building community and striving for rights of Black women in California, especially in the city of Oakland.<ref name=":0" /> She was an active member of the Alameda County League of Colored Women Voters.<ref name=":2">Wagner, V. (2009, Summer). "Activities among negroes": Race pride and a call for interracial dialogue in california's east bay region, 1920-31. ''Journalism History, 35''(2), 82-90. Retrieved from ProQuest Central Student.</ref>
Mrs. Melba Stafford, Oakland, California, a charter member of the Fannie J. Coppin Club, Oakland, is also a charter member of the California Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. She has served on the Alameda County Central Committee of the Republican Party; first Secretary of Alameda County League of Colored Women Voters; first State Chairman of the Art Department of the California Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; a charter member of the local branch of the N.A.A.C.P., which was organized in 1912 by Roy Nash, sent from the national office of the organization in New York.
Mrs. Stafford is especially proud of the fact that she was the organizer of the "Ada Young Auxiliary of the American Red Cross" in 1917, which was organized under her leadership in the city of Oakland, California, during the World War. This Unit of the Red
When America's first Black female aviator, [[Bessie Coleman]], had an accident that ruined her plane and left her with a seriously broken leg and other injuries, Stafford helped collect funds to get her up and going again.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rich |first=Doris L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaBfBgAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA71&dq=Melba+Stafford+oakland&hl=en |title=Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator |date= |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-58834-512-7 |location=Washington, D.C. |publication-date= |pages=71 |language=en}}</ref>
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