Lena Doolin Mason (May 6, 1864 – August 28, 1924) was an American Methodist preacher and poet.

White man, stop lynching and burning This black race trying to thin it For if you go to heaven or hell You will find some Negroes in it.

[2] She joined the congregation of Hannibal, Missouri's African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872.

When she was 23, Mason entered the ministry, preaching exclusively to white people for her first three years.

For the latter poem, she subverted the standard pro-slavery argument that education makes people unfit to be slaves.