The Battle for Equal Rights in Alaska

09/22/22 • 13 min

Led by a woman named Elizabeth Peratrovich, Alaskan Natives campaigned for civil rights in 1945 -- twenty years before Martin Luthor King Jr.

Led by a woman named Elizabeth Peratrovich, Alaskan Natives campaigned for civil rights in 1945 -- twenty years before Martin Luthor King Jr.

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The Alaska Territorial Guard and the Balloon Bomb Assault

During World War II more than six thousand Alaska Natives volunteered to serve as the eyes and ears of the US military in the northern territory. They were instrumental in defending America against a new type of weapon: Japanese balloon bombs being floated across the Pacific.

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