Sotiria schenck biography of alberta

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 StatesTerritory 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,^[1] a decade before the Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed segregation in public schools,^[2] and before Rosa Parks in Alabama sparked a public bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat to a white person.^[3]

Early life and segregated Alaska

Alberta Schenck was born in Nome, Alaska, on June 1, 1928, to Albert Schenck, a white army veteran of World War I, and Mary Pushruk Schenck of Inupiat heritage.^[4] She was born into an era when the indigenous peoples of Alaska were subjected to segregated practices that often left non-white children without an education for