Rights & Freedoms - General
Rights and Freedoms - Australia
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Rights and Freedoms - USA
UDHR
100
This policy forced Aboriginal people to give up their culture to be accepted into white society.
What is assimilation
100
This Latin term was used by the British to justify the occupation of Australia
What is Terra Nullius?
100
What concept does this image show?
Segregation.
100
Which US civil rights leader’s speeches inspired activists worldwide, including in Australia?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This year marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly.
When is 1948?
200
Name one major cultural impact of the Stolen Generations.
What is:
- Loss of language
- cultural knowledge
- identity.
200
This date marks the arrival of the First Fleet and the beginning of British occupation
When is January 26 1788?
200
What is depicted in the photo?
What is an Aboriginal Mission?
200
The codified system of state and local statutes, primarily in the American South from the 1880s to the 1960s, that enforced rigid racial segregation and disenfranchisement against Black Americans
What is Jim Crow (laws)?
200
This person chaired the committee that drafted the UDHR.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
The policy adopted in the 1950s with the goal to absorb Aboriginal people into white society by encouraging them to adopt Western culture and values.
What is assimilation?
300
This was the legislation that gave the Aborigines Protection Board authority to remove Aboriginal children from their families without a court order
What is The Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915?
300
What type of issue is displayed in the cartoon?
What is segregation?
What is discrimination?
What is racism?
300
Name one key method used by civil rights activists in the US to bring about change.
What are:
- Peaceful protests
- sit-ins
- Freedom Rides
- legal challenges.
300
This was Australia's representative for the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Who is Dr Herbert Evatt?
400
The name of the person who led the 1965 Freedom Ride in Australia?
Who is Charles Perkins?
400
What was one goal of the Freedom Ride?
What is to expose racial discrimination in rural NSW towns?
400
A newspaper article from 1963 calls the March on Washington 'unrealistic and disruptive.' What might this tell you about the author’s perspective?
The author likely opposed the movement or held conservative views about social change.
400
This civil rights leader, born ****** Little, changed his surname to a single letter to represent the African family name he could never know, and later took the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz after his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Malcolm X?
400
What is the purpose behind the creation of the UDHR?
What is basic human rights and freedoms (afforded to all people)?
500
What two changes occurred due to the 1967 Referendum?
What is...
- Aboriginal people counted in the census
- federal government could make laws for them.
500
This was the first major event of Indigenous activism which drew attention to the poor treatment of Aboriginal people and entrenched racial discrimination
What is the 1938 Day of Mourning?
500
What does S.A.F.A stand for?
Student Action for Aborigines
500
What did the US Freedom Rides inspire in Australia? Give the date.
What is the 1965 NSW Freedom Ride?
500
This article of the UDHR states that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
What is Article 3?
600
This was the first attempt in history to lay out rights and freedoms
What is the The Cyrus Cylinder?
600
List THREE reasons given for removal of Indigenous children in NSW
- 'being Aboriginal'
- 'being 14 years'
- 'at risk of immorality'
- 'neglected'
- 'to get her away from surroundings of Aboriginal station/Removal from idle reserve life'
- 'Orphan'
- 'to send to service'
600
Very loud.
What is Ethan?
600
Place these events in order: March on Washington, Freedom Rides, Civil Rights Act signed.
Freedom Rides (1961) → March on Washington (1963) → Civil Rights Act (1964).
600
What is one of the two legally binding covenants inspired by the UDHR?
What is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?
What is International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?