For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

November 01, 2009 | 57 min

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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Naomi Scott

Peter Coyote

Naomi Scott

Diane E. Benson

Naomi Scott

Alan Hayton

Naomi Scott

Peter Freer

Naomi Scott

Edward Christian

Naomi Scott

Mike Peterson

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