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UN & UNDHR
Indigenous Struggles for Rights and Freedoms
US Civil Rights Movement
Australia's Civil Rights Movement
Australia's Civil Rights Movement
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What does the acronym UNDHR stand for?

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

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The name of the policy that was implemented by the Australian Government in order to 'protect' Aboriginal people, but ultimately led to the Stolen Generations?

'Protection Policy'

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What did the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln aim to end?

Slavery

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What is the name of the person who lead the Freedom Rides?
Charlie Perkins
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The latin term for 'empty land' and was used to justify the colonisation of Australia

Terra Nullius

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In what year was the first United Nations conference?

1945

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Which government policy advocated the separation of Indigenous Australians from European Australians (i.e. blacks from whites?)
Segregation
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Two of the ways in which African Americans were discriminated against post the American Civil War

What is Segregation - in the form of different schools, black and white only cinemas, different dining rooms.
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What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?
To raise awareness of discrimination against Aboriginal people and to take some form of action to address it.
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What was the Aboriginal tent embassy?
Beginning on the 26th January 1972, Aboriginal activists set up an embassy on a tent in front of Parliament House in Canberra, to protest the Government's attitude towards land rights of Aboriginal peoples.
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The name of the power to that allowed countries in the Security Council block a motion from passing in the UN

What is Veto Power
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What is the policy of Assimilation and what period or event did this result in?

The integration based on ethnicity into white society, and it resulted in the Stolen Generation.

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What is the name of the woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama (1955). Her actions began the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which reduced the income of the bus company by four-fifths.
Rosa Parks
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The name of the Prime Minister who symbolically handed back the land to the Gurindji people

Who is Gough Whittlam
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Identify who gave "The Apology", and when. Explain the significance of "The Apology" for Indigenous Australians.
Kevin Rudd, 2008. The Apology was a formal apology from the Government, saying sorry for past actions that had caused harm to Indigenous Australians.
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The war that prompted the creation of the UN?

What is WWII
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List three ways that Indigenous Australians were discriminated against after Federation. Your responses must be on the list of answers.
1. Not entitled to vote it federal elections (unless enrolled in state elections) 2. Did not receive basic wage (lower wages) 3. Not eligible for pensions or baby bonus 4. Travel restrictions 5. Excluded from military training 6. Not counted within a census 7. Prevented from using public facilities 8. Not allowed to work in certain jobs
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The type of protest that the college students at Greensboro participated in

What is a sit-in

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Explain what Native Title is

Legal recognition of the existence of Indigenous people's law and land ownership prior to 1788.

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The ways in which Native Title is limited

What is Native Title is difficult to prove because Indigenous Australians have to evidence of continuous ownership. This is challenging due to the Stolen Generation. They cannot make claims on land that is used for public use or already private property

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Name the 5 countries that are permanent members of the security council

What are Russia, America, Britain, France and China
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In 1938 the 150th anniversary of the European settlement in Australia occurred. What is the name or title for the Aboriginal protest that was held at the Australian Hall in Elizabeth street, to commemorate: "150 years of misery and degradation imposed on the original native inhabitants by white invaders of this country."

The Day of Mourning

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At what event did Martin Luther King make his "I have a dream" speech, and when was this event?
The 'March on Washington' in 1963
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The key event at Morree during the Freedom Rides movement 

Indigneous people not being able to have free access to the public pool and white people having preferential treatment.

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The positive outcomes from the Mabo decision

What is the recognition of Indigenous claims to land before 1788, the agreement that 'terra nullis' was false, Indigenous people if proven to have native title can access the land to complete rights/rituals