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Hundreds honor Alaska Native civil rights icon Peratrovich

Associated Press

This undated line drawing released by the U.S. Mint shows a new $1 coin that features Elizabeth Peratrovich, a young Alaska Native woman who left an impression on Alaska's territorial Senate in 1945 by persuading the body to pass one of the nation's first anti-discrimination laws. The U.S. Mint unveiled the design on Oct. 5, 2019, at the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood convention in Anchorage. The coin features a portrait of the late civil rights leader, composed and graceful, her hair in tight rolls, above words that highlight her legacy: &quot;Anti-discrimination Law of 1945.&quot; An image of a raven, depicting her Tlingit lineage, soars near her. The 2020 Native American coin will go on sale early next year. (U.S. Mint via AP)

Alaska Native leader Peratrovich commemorated on $1 coin

By ALEX DeMARBAN - Associated Press

This undated image provided by the U.S. Mint shows coin designs featuring Elizabeth Peratrovich, scheduled to be unveiled in 2020. Peratrovich, an Alaska Native woman whose passionate testimony is credited with swaying the Alaska Territorial Legislature into passing an anti-discrimination bill nearly 20 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, will be featured on a new $1 coin honoring Native American civil rights leaders. (U.S. Mint via AP)

Q&A: Coin to mark Alaska’s landmark 1945 civil rights law

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 photo, Peri Blair looks at a new permanent exhibit honoring Tlingit civil rights activist Elizabeth Peratrovich in Ketchikan, Alaska, following the unveiling of the exhibit and the naming of the Elizabeth Peratrovich Theater in the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center. Peratrovich, born in Petersburg in 1911 as a Tlingit of the Raven-Sockeye clan, is celebrated for her role in the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, one of the first of its kind in the United States, in territorial Alaska. (Taylor Balkom/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

Theater named for Peratrovich

By NICK BOWMAN - Associated Press