Alberta Schenck Adams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alberta Schenck Adams

Challenging Alaska's segregation practices

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1928

Place of Birth: Nome, Alaska, United States

Date of Death: 06-Jul-2009

Profession: civil rights advocate

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.