The Sheldon Museum is celebrating Elizabeth Peratrovich Day on Monday, February 17, with Tlingit crafts and stories and a showing of the film,“For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska.”

The Tlingit crafts and stories for children are set to run from 1-4 p.m. Activities include animal paper piecing and Tlingit blanket crafts at 1 p.m., a reading of “Raven: A Trickster Story” at 2 p.m., potlatch hat and plank house crafts at 2:30 p.m., and a reading of “Totem Tale: A Tall Tale from Alaska” at 3:30 p.m.

The 7 p.m. showing of “For the Rights of All” tells the story of Peratrovich. A young Tlingit mother of three, Peratrovich testified before the Alaska Territorial Senate in 1945 and swayed the floor vote with her testimony in favor of the passage of the Anti-Discrimination Act, the first civil rights bill passed in the United States since the Civil War.

The one-hour film is a blend of documentary and drama, with re-enactments, new interviews, and rare historic footage and photographs. It traces Alaska’s civil rights movement in a series of victories for citizenship, voting rights, school desegregation and freedom from discrimination.

Call the museum at 766-2366.