She was responsible for forming the Phyllis Wheatley Women's Club in Chicago, Illinois in 1900.

[3] In 1933, she published her book Lifting as They Climb about the history of the National Association of Colored Women.

DuBois to contribute to the progress and to support African-American women during the early 20th century.

Elizabeth L. Davis was born in 1855 to Thomas and Sophia Jane Lindsay in the town of Peoria, Illinois.

[2] She subsequently taught school in various towns, and married William Davis in 1885.