Rights on the Line
A world power who decided on how the UN should work.
What is US, UK, France, Soviet Union, or China?
Not just an average football player, but a Freedom fighter too.
Who is Charles Perkins?
The year Aboriginal Australian's gained the right to vote federally.
What is 1962?
The length of the Wave Hill Walk Off
What is 7 years?
An Australian High Court Judge, Attorney-General, Minister for External Affairs and leader of the Labor Party.
Who is Doc Evatt?
Windows smashed, bombs hurled and a bus on fire. Home of the Freedom Riders National Monument.
What is Anniston, Alabama?
The primary goal of the 1967 Referendum for Aboriginal rights.
What is to be counted in the census?
Ongoing and in progress, an aim to right wrongs. The process of...
What is reconciliation?
Before self-determination and collaborative policies, there were...
What are the policies of segregation, dispossession, protection and assimilation?
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." - 1948
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The two sections of the Constitution that were amended by the 1967 Referendum.
What is Section 51 and 127?
Captured first from his native shore,
To England’s land, he’d learn much more.
A voice for his people, he’d pave the way,
This leader is from history’s sway.
Who is Bennelong?
Voting was legal in America but Jim Crow laws found a way around it for African Americans with these methods.
What is the Literacy test and the poll tax?
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
- 1963
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
Or
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
Prime Minister of Australia. Despite having the 1967 Referendum passed under his leadership, he is more well known for being lost at sea.
Who is Harold Holt?
Adapting the policies of Queensland's Aboriginal Protection Act, South Africa enforced this policy of segregation.
What is apartheid?