How to Pronounce Alberta Schenck Adams
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Jun 01, 1928 Nome, Alaska, United States Died on 06 Jul 2009 (aged 81)
Challenging Alaska's segregation practices
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About Alberta Schenck Adams
- Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams (June 1, 1928 – July 6, 2009) was a teenage civil rights activist in the struggle for equality by the indigenous peoples in the United States Territory of Alaska.
- Her 1944 challenge to segregation practices was cited during the Territorial Legislature's proceedings in passage of Alaska's 1945 anti-discrimination law, a decade before the Brown v.
- Board of Education decision outlawed segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks in Alabama sparked a public bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white person.
