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Elizabeth Peratrovich and the Anti-Discrimination Act
February 16, 1945
Alaska State Capitol, Juneau
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Asked by a senator what a Native woman could teach the legislature about civilisation, Peratrovich replied that she had not expected to have to remind gentlemen of the Bill of Rights. Alaska passed the first anti-discrimination law in the United States that day, nineteen years before the Civil Rights Act.
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