Policies in Australia
Aboriginal Activism
US Civil Rights Movement
MLK
100

Formal government apology to the
stolen generation is now known as...

Sorry Day

100

In what 1992 case did the High Court recognise the existence of Native Title in Australia

Mabo vs Queensland

100

Rosa Parks’s arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, led to a crippling boycott of the city’s…

buses

100

The name of MLK's most famous speech

I Have a Dream

200

Policy where Aboriginals were separated from whites and kept in missions and orphanages

Protection

200

Charles Perkins led the Freedom Ride and was instrumental in bringing about the...

1967 Referendum

200

Rather than adhere to nonviolence, which leader famously pursued civil rights “by any means necessary”?

Malcolm X

200

Where did MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech take place?

Washington

300

Policy introduced in the early 20th century when authorities realised that Protection wasn’t effectively containing Aboriginal culture.

Assimilation

300

When was the Day of Mourning Protest first held?

26th January, 1938

300

Jim Crow Laws were named after...

a character from a racist minstrel show

300

What was MLK's profession before he became an activist?

Baptist Minister

400

Policy that recognised Indigenous culture and allowed for Indigenous people to express their own identities.

Integration

400

Inspirational Aboriginal leader in New South Wales and Victoria in the early part of the 20th century and a founding secretary of the Australian Aborigines' League.

William Cooper

400

Which important function did the 1961 Freedom Rides serve?

They challenged racially segregated bus facilities.

400

In which Southern State was MLK born?

Georgia

500

Australian Prime Minister who came into office in 1972 and pushed for Aboriginals to have a say in leadership and government

Gough Whitlam

500

In what year was the Aboriginal Tent Embassy established?

1972

500

A milestone for the American civil rights movement, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by which U.S. president?

Lyndon B. Johnson

500

How old was Martin Luther King when he won the Nobel Peace Prize?

35