{"id":56102,"date":"2018-04-01T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56102"},"modified":"2018-04-01T02:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T02:53:42","slug":"alaskas-unique-civil-rights-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56102","title":{"rendered":"Alaska\u2019s Unique Civil Rights Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alaska\u2019s Unique Civil Rights Struggle<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

JSTOR Daily<\/a>
\n2018-03-26<\/p>\n

Matthew Wills<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nNative Alaskan<\/a> woman and child, 1929.
\nvia Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

A generation before the Civil Rights movement<\/a> gained national attention, the struggle against Jim Crow<\/a> was being fought\u2026in Alaska<\/a>. And women were at the forefront of the struggle.<\/p>\n

Modern Alaskans, writes historian Terrence M. Cole<\/a>, are \u201csurprised and shocked to learn that racial segregation and Jim Crow policies towards Alaska natives<\/a> were standard practice throughout much of Alaska<\/a>\u201d until the mid-1940s. Stores, bars, and restaurants posted \u201cNo Natives Allowed.\u201d Movie theaters had \u201cFor Natives Only\u201d seating. (Nome\u2019s<\/a> theater\u2019s balcony was segregated for natives, commonly called \u201cEskimos,\u201d and designated \u201cNigger Heaven\u201d by whites.) And, by law and custom, Alaskans attended segregated schools…<\/p>\n

…In the midst of the legislative battle over the equal rights bill, Alberta Schenck<\/a>, a seventeen-year old with a white father and a native mother, was arrested for sitting in the \u201cwhites only\u201d section of Nome\u2019s movie theater in March 1944. (This was eleven years before Rosa Parks\u2019s famous refusal to sit in the back of a Montgomery bus<\/a>.) The furor over the incident galvanized support for Gruening\u2019s<\/a> bill after an earlier version had been stopped by an 8-8 vote in the Alaska House. The unprecedented election of two Tlingit<\/a> legislators in late 1944 helped as well…<\/p>\n

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