Notes


1. Isaac Dookhan, A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States (Epping,
 Essex, England: Caribbean Universities Press in association with the Bowker
 Publishing Company for the College of the Virgin Islands, 1974), 271-272.

2. Ibid., 276; William W. Boyer, America's Virgin Islands: A History of Human Rights
 and Wrongs (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 1983), 140.

3. Darwin D. Creque, The U.S. Virgin Islands and the Eastern Caribbean
 (Philadelphia: Whitmore Publishing Co., 1968), 108.

 4. Iid., 109-117; Valdemar A. Hill, Sr., Rise to Recognition (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin
 Islands: St. Thomas Graphics Inc., 1971), 91-101.

 5. John Frederick Grede, "The New Deal in the Virgin Islands, 1931-1941" (Ph.D.
 Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1962), 50-51; Creque, 125.

 6. Boyer, 207, 209; Hazel May McFerson, "The Impact of a Changed Racial
 Tradition: Race, Politics, and Society in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1917-1975"
 (Ph.D. Dissertation, Brandeis University, 1976), 91-92.

 7. Earle B. Ottley, Trials and Triumphs: The Long Road to a Middle Class Society in
 the U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., 1982), 110; Ralph M. Paiewonsky
 with Isaac Dookhan, Memoirs of a Governor: A Man for the People (New York:
 New York University Press, 1990), 140. (In the 1953 referendum, more St. Croix
 votes were still against, rather than for, an elected governor and a single
 legislature, but the overall totals favored those measures because of their
 overwhelming support by St. Thomas votes.)

 8. Ottley, 124.

 9. Creque, 150; James A. Bough and Roy C. Macridis, eds., Virgin Islands.
 America's Caribbean Outpost: The Evolution of Self-Government (Wakefield,
 Mass.: The Walter F. Williams Publishing Company, 1970), 124.

10. Marilyn F. Krigger, "A Quarter-Century of Race Relations in the U.S. Virgin
 Islands: St. Thomas, 1950-1975" (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware,
 1983), 397-400.