Program

National Votes for Women Trail

Subject

People

Location

725 Edgewater Dr, Dunedin, FL 34698, USA

Lat/Long

28.012114, -82.79139

Grant Recipient

National Collaborative for Women's History Sites

Florida native and suffragist (1887-1962) Elizabeth Skinner Jackson helped lead women in Pinellas County to organize the Florida Equal Suffrage Association at the former Library Hall, which stood nearby. She served as president of the organization and, in 1919, travelled to the state capital in Tallahassee to promote and present the topic of woman suffrage to the state legislature.

Jackson’s obituary, published in March 24, 1962 edition of The Tampa Tribune, further details her professional achievements:

She was named Dunedin’s first lady citizen in 1955 and five years later she was awarded an honorary mast of arts degree during the Diamond Jubilee convocation at Florida Southern College, where she had been dean of women for three years and a sociology instructor for five. She joined the Presbyterian Church when she was 14 and remained active in the church included teaching Sunday School. She also served as director of the National Youth Administration camps at Crystal Beach and Tampa; was personnel directory for Juice Industries Inc., and for H.P. HOOD & Sons for three years; helped organize the Pinellas County Boy Scouts, the county YWCA and the federation of Women’s Clubs and the Dunedin Women’s Clubs and the YWCA.