1915 extension of the franchise to Danish women. In 1921, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified that constitutional rights did not extend to residents of either Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands, as they were defined in Puerto Rico by the Organic Act of 1900 and in the Virgin Islands by the Danish Colonial Law of 1906. In 1922 Williams began teaching at Dober Elementary School, which had formerly been known as Vestergade School and Ulysses S. Grant School, in Savan. Transferred to James Madison School in 1928, Williams became the school principal in 1932. While heading Madison, she created the first school lunch program in the Virgin Islands. Teaching students and their parents how to garden, she created a vegetable patch on the school grounds, allowing them to grow their own food, prepare it for lunches, and sell the excess produce. Williams owned her own home on Hospital Grounds Road in Charlotte Amalie and walked to her teaching post at Madison every day. In 1931, the territory, which had been administrated by the United States Navy, was turned over to civilian governance. Virgin Islands women felt that they would be granted suffrage when citizenship was given to people in the territory in 1932, but voting rights did not occur. Urged on by businesswoman Ella Gifft, Williams, Bertha C. Boschulte, and Eulalie Stevens joined together to fight for suffrage. Each of them had ties to educational activities and the suffrage movement in the United States. They were aware of developments in Puerto Rico led by Milagros Benet de Mewton to gain enfranchisement there in 1929. In 1935, Elsie Hill, a former suffragist and wife of Judge Albert Levitt, encouraged Boschulte, secretary of the Teachers' Association, and other association members to challenge their voting exclusion. The Association filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Virgin Islands in November 1935 and Levitt ruled that Danish Colonial Law was unconstitutional, as it contravened the provisions of the Nineteenth Amendment, and had never been intended to restrict the vote to men. The following month, Williams became the first woman to register to vote and was quickly followed by nearly two dozen other women. The Board of Elections rejected all of the women registrants, causing Hill to arrange for the pro bono services of lawyer, Robert Claiborne. Choosing Williams, Eulalie Stevens, and Anna M. Vessup as petitioners, the Teachers' Association sought to