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Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska

Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska is held on February 16. This event in the second decade of the month February is annual. Help us Help us 
16 February - Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska
Elizabeth Peratrovich died on December 1, 1958, at the age of 47, of breast cancer. She lived long enough to see the rough early years of the Civil Rights Movement, during which the rest of the country battled with the same types of discrimination against African-Americans that she had fought on behalf of Alaska Natives. Nineteen years after Governor Bruening signed the law in Alaska, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination throughout the country on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Forty-four years after Governor Gruening signed the law, February 16 was established as "The Annual Elizabeth Peratrovich Day."
Source: fhwa.dot.gov

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