In 1944, Alaska businesses routinely post signs reading, “No dogs, no Indians.” Alberta Schenck, age sixteen and a mixed-race Eskimo, decided she was not going to passively allow this. She went to the movies and deliberately sat in the whites-only section, and the police put her in jail. Afterwards, Alberta published an essay, decrying the discriminatory practices of Nome’s businesses. That’s her essay, published in the local newspaper. The public response was so big, the Nome mayor and the Alaska Territorial Governor promised to seek a legislative end to the discrimination. In 1945, after much fighting and advocating by many Native Alaskans, Alaska’s territorial legislature finally passes anti-discrimination law.
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