students at Friday’s assembly.
Haines students from kindergarten to 12th grade described Tlingit civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich as “important,” “awesome” and “the female version of Martin Luther King Jr.”
“She’s the one that made everybody be together,” said kindergartener Kayci Ferrin.
On Friday, the Haines Borough School hosted an assembly to celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich Day, 74 years after Alaska’s Anti-Discrimination Act was adopted, banning discrimination in…
