Alaska Native civil rights leader commemorated on U.S. coin

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – The U.S. Mint has proposed a new $1 coin with designs honoring a landmark anti-discrimination law that passed in territorial Alaska in 1945, years before the U.S. Civil Rights Act.
A commemoration of #ElizabethPeratrovich & AK’s anti-discrimination law will appear on a $1 @USTreasury coin in 2020 https://t.co/3at5Ue4SQ1 pic.twitter.com/RytLzUO9ta
— Governor Bill Walker (@AkGovBillWalker) June 30, 2017
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