For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska Natives. Their struggle to win justice is one of the great, untold chapters of the American civil rights movement, culminating at the violent peak of World War II with the passage of one of the nation's first equal rights laws.
Cast
Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator (voice)
Diane E. Benson
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Alan Hayton
Roy Peratrovich
Peter Freer
Chairman Green
Edward Christian
Senator Shattuck
Mike Peterson
Senator Walker
Jerry Demmert
Senator Whaley
Kent Pillsbury
Senator Scott
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In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska Natives. Their struggle to win justice is one of the great, untold chapters of the American civil rights movement, culminating at the violent peak of World War II with the passage of one of the nation's first equal rights laws.
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