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Edith L. Williams
US Virgin Islands educator and suffragist · Denmark · On the map · Activists · Lived 1887 to 1987 · aged 99
Edith L. Williams was a United States Virgin Islands educator, women's rights activist, and suffragist.
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Williams was the first woman who attempted to vote in the Virgin Islands and when she was denied the right to register, she petitioned the court along with Eulalie Stevens and Anna M. Vessup to review their qualifications. They won their case and subsequently women throughout the Virgin Islands who were literate and property owners were allowed to vote. A bust of Williams was installed in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Veterans Memorial Park in Charlotte Amalie, and the James Madison Elementary School was renamed as the Edith L. Williams School in 1981 in her honor.
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