Elizabeth Peratrovich

Writer, Deceased Person

1911 – 1958

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Who was Elizabeth Peratrovich?

Elizabeth Jean Peratrovich, Tlingit nation, was an important civil rights activist; she worked on behalf of equality for Alaska Natives. In the 1940s, she was credited with advocacy that gained the passage of the territory's Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States.

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Born
Jul 4, 1911
Petersburg
Ethnicity
  • Tlingit
Profession
Education
  • Ketchikan High School
  • Sheldon Jackson College
Lived in
  • Alaska
Died
Dec 1, 1958

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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