For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow In Alaska

2009 VisionMaker Film Festival home

(56 minutes), Release Date: 2009, Filmmaker: Jeff Silverman

This program tells the true-life story of an extraordinary Alaskan woman who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight for civil rights. Elizabeth Peratrovich—a young, unassuming Tlingit Indian mother of three testified before the Alaska State Senate in 1945 and swayed the floor vote with her compelling testimony in favor of the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Bill, the first civil rights bill passed in the United States since the Civil War.

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The VisionMaker Film Festival for 2009 has ended. You can still watch this film on public television: http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder or buy the DVD at VisionMaker Video http://visionmaker.semkhor.com.

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