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“I had found that the pure democracy
and egalitarianism of Alaskans
which had so impressed me
was subject to one exception:
It did not apply to the Native people—
Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts.”
—Ernest Gruening,
governor of Alaska,
U.S. senator
Images accompanying “THE ROSA PARKS OF NOME”:
ALASKA’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1945
AND TWO WOMEN PIVOTAL TO ITS PASSAGE
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Jesse Lee Home basketball team, 1928-1929: Front row (from left), Charles Carlson, Benny Benson, Nick Heidel;
back row, Charles Lange, David Elinglook, Thoburn Hatten, John Hughes, Eddie Edigruk. From the 1929 Kueuit
yearbook (original in Alaska State Library archives, Juneau). From Family After All: Alaska’s Jesse Lee Home,
Vol. II, Seward 1925-1965.
Fourth Avenue in Seward, Alaska, c. 1939. On the truck, from left, Natalia [Kayander?], Vesta Chilstrom, [above
Vesta, name not known], Elizabeth Olson, Beatrice Skinner (partly visible), staff member Areta Howell in dark cap
with pointed crown [possibly her son Teddy or Harold peering over the side of the truck], Anna June Wilson in
plaid coat, Esther Munson (another dark cap), Beatrice Sandstrom directly in front of Esther; on the tailgate, Wilma
Carlson, Alice Hughes, Frances Anderson, Marianne Olson; and behind Frances, Mabel Sheward. [Girl in headscarf, face turned away, name not known.] Photo and names thanks to Anna June Wilson Ollestad. From Family
After All: Alaska’s Jesse Lee Home, Vol. II, Seward 1925-1965.
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“Educated Eskimos, of Alaska, Graduates of
Carlisle University.” From the collection of
Raymond L. Hudson.
Ann Wemark at Wales, Alaska, c. 1946. From
the collection of Ann Wemark Rodgers, in Family
After All.
Matilda Wemark at Wales, Alaska, c. 1946.
From the collection of Ann Wemark Rodgers,
in Family After All.
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Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening signs the Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945; looking on are (from left)
O.D. Cochran, territorial senator from Nome; Elizabeth Peratrovich, president of the Alaska Native Sisterhood; Edward Anderson, territorial representative from Nome; Norman (“Doc”) Walker, territorial senator
from Ketchikan; and Roy Peratrovich, president of the Alaska Native Brotherhood. Photo from the archives
of the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, AMRC b92-16-3, in Family After All..
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska:
All citizens within the jurisdiction of the Territory of Alaska shall be entitled to
the full and equal enjoyment of accommodations, advantages, facilities and
privileges of public inns, restaurants, eating houses, hotels, soda fountains,
soft drink parlors, taverns, roadhouses, barber shops, beauty parlors, bathrooms, resthouses, theaters, skating rinks, cafes, ice cream parlors, transportation companies, and all other conveyances and amusements, subject only to
the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all
citizens.
Punishment. Any person who shall violate or aid or incite a violation of said
full and equal enjoyment, or any person who shall display any printed or written sign indicating a discrimination on racial grounds of said full and equal
enjoyment, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than thirty (30)
days or fined not more than $250.00 or both. Approved February 16, 1945.
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Miss Bertha McGhee and “11 Eskimos” at the Jesse Lee Home, Seward. Photo courtesy of
Virginia Search Kirk.
“In our Sunday best with Miss (Pat)
Gibson,” c. 1951. Back row, from
left, Madeleine Hicklin, Pauline
Matiesen, Esther Havercamp;
middle row, Ramona Butler, Paris
Giacometti, Ann Wemark; front row,
Rosemary Trigg, Hilda Heinrich, Alice
Hicklin. Photo and caption courtesy
of Ann Wemark Rodgers, in Family 7
After All.
July 7, 1927, Jesse Lee Home, Seward, Alaska
Photo courtesy of the Hatch family, in Family After All:
Alaska’s Jesse Lee Home, Vol. II, Seward 1925-1965.
Flag designer Benny Benson and daughters at the 75th
anniversary of the Jesse Lee Home, 1965. Photo courtesy of
Virginia Search Kirk, in Family After All.
In the Jesse Lee kitchen, c. 1930:
Miss Anna Irene Gould and helpers.
Photo courtesy of Barry Hatten, in
Family After All.
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Young dancers and elders of the Qutekcak Native Tribe, Seward. Back row, from left: Elders Marge Christiansen, Leo
Kunnuk and Josephine Dudley; youth coordinator Melanee Stevens and daughter Ariana. Middle row, from left:
Priscilla, Alex, elder Ellen Simpson, Amber, Joevahnte. Front: Henry, Adorah and Jesse. October 2008 photo and
caption courtesy of Melanee Stevens, for Qutekcak.
ALBERTA
Remembering
SCHENCK ADAMS (above),
June 1, 1928—July 6, 2009, and
ELIZABETH WANAMAKER PERATROVICH,
July 4, 1911—Dec. 1, 1958.
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Women’s suffrage, U.S.
Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act
U.S. Civil Rights Act
Women’s suffrage, Washington state
Women’s suffrage, territory of Alaska
1910
1913
1920
1945
1964
PIONEERS
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