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For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska(2009)
Status: Released
Date: 2009-11-01
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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.
Languages: English.
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United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Blueberry's Production
Movie: For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
Top 8 Billed Cast
Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator (voice)
Diane E. Benson
Elizabeth Peratrovich
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