Elizabeth Peratrovich
✓ Source-basedfallingCivil rights activist from Alaska (1911-1958)
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Elizabeth Peratrovich was an American civil rights activist, Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and a Tlingit who worked for equality on behalf of Alaska Natives.
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Libby RiddlesAlso won Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Ellen (Nellie) CashmanAlso won Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Susan ButcherAlso won Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Frederica de LagunaAlso won Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Lisa MurkowskiAlso won Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
Nora Marks DauenhauerAlso won Alaska Women's Hall of Fame
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Elizabeth Peratrovich was an American civil rights activist, Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and a Tlingit who worked for equality on behalf of Alaska Natives. In the 1940s, her advocacy was credited as being instrumental in the passing of Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first state or territorial anti-discrimination law enacted in the United States.
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Lived 1911 to 1958 · aged 47
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