Return to:   "The Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act - 1945 - Alaska moved from a culture of Native/non-Native segregation to equal rights for all under the law, thanks in part to Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening and the efforts of Native activists Elizabeth Peratrovich and Alberta Schenck." Governor Gruening signs the Anti-Discrimination Act, 1945 Example of anti-Native discrimination in Juneau Air Transport Command Dance in Nome, 1945 Main Street, Nome, Alaska Alberta Schenck's letter to the Nome Nugget, March 3, 1944 The "whites only" barracks at Unangan Hospital The Alaska Daily Empire, February 6, 1945, reporting Elizabeth Peratrovich's speech The Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act
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