Who Is Elizabeth Peratrovich? The Story Behind the Country's First Anti-Discrimination Law

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• Creators:
  Weingroff, Richard F.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Discrimination History Indigenous Peoples Laws And Legislation
• Resource Type:
  Web Document
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;Alaska
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  The story of Elizabeth Peratrovich, a Native American woman from Alaska who championed the first anti-discrimination law passed in the United States. Peratrovich campaigned for this bill in response to Alaskan businesses discriminating against Native American patrons and the law was successfully passed in February 1945 in Alaska.
• Content Notes:
  The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76522/dot_76522_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.51 MB ]