S4:E2 – Martin Luther King Jr., Hamilton, The PAC and Racism in Anchorage

When Lin-Manuel Miranda said of his hit musical “This is a story about America then, told by America now” he could not have known how much that connects with the history of Anchorage. When Alaskans packed the Alaska Performing Arts Center to see Hamilton recently many did not know how that building represents the city’s resistance to the diversity of America and Anchorage now.

 

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Resources Used to Make This Episode:

Glavinic, T., 2014, ‘Remembering Elizabeth Peratrovich: Alaska’s civil rights legacy’, Alaska Commons, 17 February, 2014, viewed 30 January 2019, from http://www.alaskacommons.com/2014/02/17/remembering-elizabeth-peratrovich/

http://albertaschenckadams.com/

Schenck, A., 1944, ‘To whom it may concern’, Nome Nugget, 3 March, 1944, viewed 30 January 2019, from https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg21/id/2057/ 

For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska 2009 - DVD

https://www.alaskahistory.org/anchorage-timeline/#:~:text=1983%2D1986%3A%20Project%2080s%2C,Center%20for%20the%20Performing%20Arts.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/15/us/anchorage-journal-center-for-performing-arts-is-off-to-a-sour-start.html

https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AK-01-SC006

Hartman, I.C., Reamer, D., 2022. Black Lives in Alaska: A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

 https://www.muni.org/departments/ocpd/planning/publications/anchorage%20economic%20indicators/03-2012indicators-anchorage%20demographics.pdf

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton/408019/

https://anchorageparkfoundation.org/completed-projects/mlk-memorial/?fbclid=IwAR39tLhxxuVaesdwcIEU3qgHZNFWS2_xWkPcknYXRWzwxywoqDPYd_VE1FI

https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/image/v2%3A1445094F387BC7E2%40NGPA-AKADN-17AA1DA7FB25A562%402451348-17AA0C3B2392BCF3%40102-17AA0C3B2392BCF3%40?search_terms=%22Martin%2BLuther%2BKing%2BJr%2BMemorial%22&text=%22Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr%20Memorial%22%20&content_added=&date_from=1990&date_to=2000&pub%255B0%255D=1445094F387BC7E2&sort=old&page=1&pdate=1999-06-18

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/martin-luther-king-avenue-opens-wednesday/2010/08/03/