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Lizzie Koontz Weeks (1879 – 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. The organization was created to support the candidacy of Robert A. Booth, C. N. McArthur, and others on the Republican ticket. The club also organized voter registration drives to help black women become registered voters and held candidate talks to inform Black voters about political issues.

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Lizzie Koontz was born in Washington D.C. In 1904, she married George W. Weeks, who worked as a packer for Prael, Hegele and Company, a kitchen and tableware store in Portland. Weeks was a member of Portland's Bethel African Methodist Church and participated in fund-raising activities for the congregation.

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Weeks was a social worker in Portland where she was the first African-American woman to work at the Montnomah county juvenile Frazier Detention Home. She also became a probation officer for the Juvenile Court and, in 1920, for the Multnomah County Court of Domestic Relations. In the fall of 1914, in the first national election after the success of woman's suffrage in Oregon, Weeks helped organize a meeting in Portland of African-American women who supported the Republican Party, the party of most blacks from the time of the Civil War until the Great Depression. The group formed the Colored Women's Republican Club and elected Weeks, who was already a registered voter, as president. At the conclusion of the meeting, the group went to the Multnomah County courthouse so that those who were not yet registered could do so.In 1918, Weeks was a candidate for Republican precinct committee members.

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