Racial segregation in the United States

===In Alaska===
[[File:Discrimination_in_a_restaurant_in_Juneau_in_1908.png|thumb|Discrimination in a restaurant in [[Juneau, Alaska]], in 1908: "All White Help."]]

Racial segregation in [[Alaska]] was primarily targeted at [[Alaska Natives]].{{Sfn|Cole|1992|p=430}} In 1905, the Nelson Act specified an educational system for whites and one for indigenous Alaskans.{{Sfn|Cole|1992|p=431}} Public areas such as playgrounds, swimming pools, and theaters were also segregated.{{Sfn|Cole|1992|p=434}} Groups such as the [[Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood|Alaska Native Brotherhood]] (ANB) staged boycotts of places that supported segregation.{{Sfn|Cole|1992|p=434}} In 1941, [[Elizabeth Peratrovich]] ([[Tlingit]]) and her husband argued to the governor of Alaska, [[Ernest Gruening]], that segregation was "very Un-American".{{Sfn|Cole|1992|pp=435–436}} Gruening supported anti-discrimination laws and pushed for their passage.{{Sfn|Cole|1992|p=436}} In 1944, [[Alberta Schenck Adams|Alberta Schenck]] ([[Iñupiat|Inupiaq]]) staged a sit-in in the whites-only section of a theater in Nome, Alaska.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 16, 2017|title=Peratrovich, ANB work to end 'de jure' segregation in Alaska|url=https://www.kcaw.org/2017/02/16/peratrovich-anb-work-end-de-jure-segregation-alaska/|access-date=November 11, 2020|website=KCAW|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, the [[Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945|Alaska Equal Rights Act]], was passed in Alaska.<ref name="Vaughan-2019">{{Cite news|last=Vaughan|first=Carson|date=March 20, 2019|title=Overlooked No More: Elizabeth Peratrovich, Rights Advocate for Alaska Natives|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/obituaries/elizabeth-peratrovich-overlooked.html|access-date=November 11, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The law made segregation illegal and banned signs that discriminate based on race.<ref name="Vaughan-2019" />