For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
Film
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
United States- Director
- Jeffry Lloyd Silverman
- Year
- 2009
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, Phil Lucas
Written by
Diane E. Benson, Jeffry Lloyd Silverman, Stevan M. Smith
Produced by
Jeffry Lloyd Silverman
