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Birth
Elisabeth was born to Mary Hall Freeman in England, who was estranged from her husband. -
Standing up for what she belives.
Elizabeth tried to protect a women being beaten and was arested for it. This women later influnced her to join in the fight for women's sufferage. -
An act of Justice
One prominent example happened in 1913, when she took part in the national Suffrage Hike to the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.C. As a publicity stunt in New York City she wore a gypsy costume and drove a wagon piled with women's suffrage literature and stenciled with 'Votes for Women' slogans. -
Invetigation
While working in Texas for the suffrage movement, on May 16, 1916, one day after the lynching of Jesse Washington she was brought in to investigate by the NAACP.[5] For a week, she talked to people in Waco, and her documentation of the lynching to W. E. B. Du Bois was the base for garnering national attention. -
Active Peace member
In the years between 1917 and 1919, she was active for the peace movement, where she lobbied Congress, and continued her work organizing, speaking and fighting for the cause of civil rights, although speaking up against US policies concerning the war garnered strong reactions by the media and the public.
