December 30th (UPI) – Google celebrates civil rights activist Elizabeth Peratrovich, who passed the first anti-discrimination law in the US, with a new Doodle.
Guest artist Michaela Goade from Sitka, Alaska created Google’s homepage artwork on which Peratrovich gives a speech with wings.
On that day in 1941, Peratrovich launched the anti-discrimination law by writing a letter to Alaska’s governor and getting his support after she came across a sign that read “No Natives Allowed”.
Peratrovich, a native Alaskan, became the great president of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, one of the oldest civil rights groups in the world. She and her husband Roy Peratrovich moved with their three children to the Alaskan capital Juneau in 1941, where they were discriminated against.
The couple helped draft Alaska’s first anti-discrimination law, which was not passed in 1941. Peratrovich helped pass a second law in 1945 after delivering a passionate speech demanding equal treatment for indigenous peoples.
The Alaska State Legislature declared February 16 Elizabeth Peratrovich Day. Their likeness was added to a $ 1 god coin by the United States Mint in 2020.
“Thank you, Elizabeth Peratrovich, for helping lay the foundations for a fairer future,” said Google.
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