Fulton helped break down the color barrier in women's bowling. A native of Kingstree, S.C., Fulton grew up in Pittsburgh and played basketball and softball at Peabody High School. She didn't take up bowling until well after graduation when she started competing in the rubber-band duckpin version of the game. It was seven years later, in 1949 before Fulton began tenpin bowling.

A top competitor in Western Pennsylvania, Fulton carried a career high average of 194. Her high single game was 279 and her high series a 741. She was inducted into the National Bowling Association Hall of Fame, the Western Pennsylvania State Women's Bowling Association Hall of Fame and the Pennsylvania State Women's Bowling Hall of Fame.

When the Professional Women's Bowling Association was organized in the early 1960s Fulton signed up. Her first and only tour win came at the Princeton Open in 1964. She was the first African American woman to win a professional title.

Fulton died of cancer in 1988. She was inducted into the WIBC Hall of Fame in 2001.