{"id":2778,"date":"2013-02-12T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T02:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2013-02-12T17:15:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T02:15:16","slug":"elizabeth-peratrovich-day-february-16-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=2778","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Peratrovich Day \u2013 February 16, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alaskasenate.org\/stedman\/newsletters\/021113_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"153\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In 1988, the Alaska State Legislature established February 16 as \u201cElizabeth Peratrovich Day\u201d in order to honor \u201cher courageous unceasing efforts to eliminate discrimination and bring about equal rights in Alaska.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Jean Peratrovich was of Tlingit descent, and was an important civil rights activist who worked tirelessly on behalf of equality for Alaska Natives. In the 1940\u2019s, she was credited with advocacy that gained the passage of the territory\u2019s Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Peratrovich was born on July 4, 1911 in Petersburg, Alaska and was a member of the Lukaax.adi clan, in the Raven moiety of the Tlingit nation. She grew up in Petersburg and Ketchikan and attended Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, and the Western College of Education in Bellingham, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth was married to Roy Peratrovich. They had three children, daughter Loretta, and sons Roy Jr. and Frank.<\/p>\n<p>The Elizabeth Peratrovich Award was among several she received. This particular award was in her honor by the Alaska Native Sisterhood. In 1992, Gallery B of the Alaska House of Representatives chamber in the Alaska State Capitol was renamed in her honor. A documentary about Peratrovich\u2019s groundbreaking civil rights advocacy premiered on October 22, 2009 at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage. A park named for Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich is located in downtown Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in celebrating Elizabeth Peratrovich Day on February 16th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1988, the Alaska State Legislature established February 16 as \u201cElizabeth Peratrovich Day\u201d in order to honor \u201cher courageous unceasing efforts to eliminate discrimination and bring about equal rights in Alaska.\u201d Elizabeth Jean Peratrovich was of Tlingit descent, and was an important civil rights activist who worked tirelessly on behalf of equality for Alaska Natives. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}