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Lizzie Weeks

1879–1976

United States

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Lizzie Koontz Weeks (1879 – September 20, 1976) was an African American activist in Portland, Oregon. She was a commissioner for the National Emancipation Commemorative Society in 1912. In 1914 she was elected president of the Colored Women's Republican Club.

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