For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

Story

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Phil Lucas, Jeffry Lloyd Silverman

Writers

Stevan M. Smith, Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, Diane E. Benson

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

1 November 2009

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Peter Coyote

  Self - Narrator (voice)

• 

  Diane E. Benson

  Elizabeth Peratrovich

• Alan Hayton

  Roy Peratrovich

• Peter Freer

  Chairman Green

• Edward Christian

  Senator Shattuck

• Mike Peterson

  Senator Walker

• Jerry Demmert

  Senator Whaley

• Kent Pillsbury

  Senator Scott