Key People
He led the 1965 Freedom Ride through NSW country towns, challenging segregation.
Charles Perkins
Year of the Australian Freedom Ride.
1965
Policy approach that aimed to absorb Aboriginal people into non-Indigenous society, especially after WWII.
Assimilation
Government bodies that controlled many aspects of Aboriginal peoples’ lives, including wages and reserves.
Aboriginal Protection Boards.
1954 Supreme Court case that ruled segregated public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Torres Strait Islander whose High Court case overturned terra nullius in 1992.
Eddie Mabo
Year of the national referendum that changed Sections 51(xxvi) and 127 of the Constitution.
1967
The 1938 event on Australia Day where Aboriginal leaders protested loss of land and rights.
The Day of Mourning
Term for children forcibly removed from their families under past policies.
The Stolen Generations.
1955–56 protest sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest; a 13-month boycott that ended bus segregation in Montgomery.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Gurindji leader of the 1966 Wave Hill Walk-Off.
Vincent Lingiari
Year the High Court recognised native title in the Mabo decision.
1992
1966–75 protest that began at Wave Hill over equal pay and land rights.
The Gurindji “Wave Hill Walk-Off.”
A right commonly denied to Aboriginal people in many towns before the mid-1960s (name one).
qual access to public facilities / service in shops / swimming pools / pubs, etc. (Any one.)
1960 student action at a Woolworth’s lunch counter that ignited sit-ins across the South.
The Greensboro sit-ins (the Greensboro Four).
Campaigner who helped drive the 1967 Referendum movement; also prominent in the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI).
Faith Bandler
Year the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was first established in Canberra.
1972
Movement that used bus tours to expose segregation in NSW towns like Walgett and Moree.
The Freedom Ride.
1938 Sydney protest leaders included Jack Patten and William Ferguson; what was their organisation’s earlier name (founded 1920s) that evolved into the Aborigines Progressive Association?
Day of Mourning leadership (accept Jack Patten/William Ferguson)
1961 CORE-led campaign riding interstate buses to challenge terminal segregation, prompting federal intervention.
The Freedom Rides.
US civil rights leader whose non-violent methods inspired Australian activists.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Year the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly.
1948
The 1997 national inquiry/report documenting experiences of the Stolen Generations.
Bringing Them Home report.
What part of the US movement did Australian students echo by visiting and documenting discrimination in regional towns?
Freedom Rides.
Name the two landmark US laws passed in 1964 and 1965 that outlawed discrimination and protected voting rights.
The Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965).