For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska (2009)
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska (2009) - Documentary Movies 57 minutes. . In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska Natives. Their struggle to win justice is one of the great, untold chapters of the American civil rights movement, culminating at the violent peak of World War II with the passage of one of the nation's first equal rights laws. civil rights, native american, alaska, tlingit, alaska native
Released: Nov 01, 2009
Runtime: 57 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Peter Coyote, Diane E. Benson, Alan Hayton, Peter Freer, Edward Christian, Mike Peterson
Crew: Diane E. Benson (Writer), Jeffry Lloyd Silverman (Writer), T.J. Williams (Director of Photography), Diane E. Benson (Researcher), Laura Ganis (Associate Producer), Tom Williams (Assistant Camera)