Elizabeth Beatrice Cooke Fouse (May 14, 1875 – October 22, 1952) was a woman from Kentucky, dedicated to gaining equality for African American women on both local and national levels.

Her writings included "Women as branch leaders; burglary case results in death penalty; police brutality; rape of minors; and anti-lynching.

"In opposition to discrimination, segregation, and limited public assistance, Fouse followed a strategy that encouraged self-help, self-sufficiency, and respectable behavior.

Although it served the community, club work also allowed black women to cultivate leadership skills and establish a base of organizational strength.

During the KWCTU Executive Committee Meeting in 1905, local branches were requested to organize auxiliary unions for African-American women to join.

In 1907 the newly created Lexington Negro Woman's Christian Temperance Union established a Colored industrial school in the former Good Samaritan Hospital on East Short Street.