Weeks was an activist in Portland’s African American community following Oregon’s 1912 proclamation of woman suffrage. She aimed to organize and empower local black women as voters in the system that had previously disavowed her sex and race. She invited visitors to the Portland African American community, and helped build networks with activists outside Oregon. In 1912, she served as a commissioner representing Oregon on the National Emancipation Commemorative Society to recognize the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Weeks helped to organize a 1914 meeting for women of color to support the Republican party which was popular with African Americans until the Great Depression. These women would go on to found the Colored Women’s Republican Club and they elected Weeks as its president. The club’s chief aim under Weeks’ leadership was getting African American women registered to vote. 

Like many other women of color from this period, records on Weeks are few and far between. Her activism is the most well documented part of her life. She is remembered for organizing African American women and working to strengthen her disenfranchised community.

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