[2] Elisabeth, her mother, and siblings Clara (Jane) and John moved to the United States, where they lived on Long Island, New York.

[4] Freeman moved for a time back to London, where she helped a woman who was beaten by a policeman; both women were arrested after the confrontation.

This woman brought Freeman into the suffrage movement, within which she learned the arts of campaigning, including public speaking, media work and recruitment.

A crowd of 10,000 witnessed the brutal lynching of Jesse Washington, a young African-American farmhand convicted of murder in Waco, Texas.

Du Bois was used by the NAACP to publicize the case and garner national attention over the outrage of lynching American citizens.