Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 1927 Act omitted provisions for native Virgin Islanders residing anywhere other than the islands or continental United States on January 17, 1917; the United States, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands on February 25, 1927; or regardless of when they were born did not reside in the United States, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands on either ...
Under United States Federal law (8 U.S.C. § 1401), a person is a United States national and citizen if: the person is born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; the person is born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Inuit, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe (see Indian Citizenship Act of 1924)
The United States took possession of the islands on March 31, 1917, and the territory was renamed the Virgin Islands of the United States. [27] [29] Every year, Transfer Day is recognized as a holiday, to commemorate the acquisition of the islands by the United States. [30] Rear Admiral James H. Oliver was the first American governor of the ...
The Virgin Islands government is organized under the provisions of the Revised Organic Act of 1954 and the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916. [1] [2] On October 21, 1976, Congress passed Pub. L. 94–584 (subsequently amended by Pub. L. 96-597, title V, Sec. 501, Dec. 24, 1980) authorizing the people of the United States Virgin Islands ...
Estate Judith's Fancy, subdistrict of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Christiansted is a former sugarcane plantation whose great house was built in 1733. [2] Its surviving 3.6 acres (1.5 ha) property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
David Hamilton Jackson (September 28, 1884 – May 30, 1946) was a labor rights advocate in the Danish West Indies, later the United States Virgin Islands.Jackson was an important figure in the struggle for increased civil rights and workers' rights on the islands.
Jackson was a vocal advocate for civil rights in the Danish West Indies. He campaigned for the right to free speech and assembly, and for greater representation of the black population in the government. In 1917, he traveled to Denmark to lobby for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States.
Bertha C. Boschulte (March 8, 1906 – August 18, 2004) was an American educator, women's rights activist, statistician and politician. During her tenure as a teacher, she actively worked to attain women's suffrage in the Virgin Islands. After obtaining her master's degree in Public Health, she worked as the director of the Statistical Service ...