Elizabeth Peratrovich
Civil Rights Leader

Elizabeth Peratrovich Net Worth

She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988. Her salary is unknown. Elizabeth Peratrovich was a Civil Rights Leader who was born in 1911 and is estimated to have a net worth of $7 Million. She was an activist for Alaskan natives and was instrumental in the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first U.S. law outlawing the practice. In 1988, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her salary is unknown.
Elizabeth Peratrovich is a member of Civil Rights Leader

Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day July 4, 1911
Birth Place AK
Age 109 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Cancer

💰 Net worth: $7 Million (2024)

About

Activist for Alaskan natives who pushed for the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, the first U.S. law outlawing the practice.

Before Fame

Her state barred native Alaskan women from public venues that their GI brothers could freely attend; and mixing between the males and females of different races was strictly forbidden.

Trivia

She worked with both houses of Congress to pass a law providing 'full and equal accommodations, facilities, and privileges to all citizens.'

Family Life

She was adopted at a young page by a Native Alaskan Tlingit couple, and later married Roy Peratrovich, another Tingit.

Associated With

Decades after her work for natives of Alaska, Martin Luther King pushed for the Civil Rights Act to extend the same equality to African Americans.

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