For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska

200957m
Documentary

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.

Crew

Diane E. Benson

Diane E. Benson

Writer

JL

Jeffry Lloyd Silverman

Writer

TW

T.J. Williams

Director of Photography

JL

Jeffry Lloyd Silverman

Producer

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Stevan M. Smith

Writer

JL

Jeffry Lloyd Silverman

Director

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Phil Lucas

Director

Cast

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator (voice)

Diane E. Benson

Diane E. Benson

Elizabeth Peratrovich

AH

Alan Hayton

Roy Peratrovich

PF

Peter Freer

Chairman Green

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Edward Christian

Senator Shattuck

MP

Mike Peterson

Senator Walker

JD

Jerry Demmert

Senator Whaley

KP

Kent Pillsbury

Senator Scott

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