Australia Civil Rights
This government policy, introduced in the late 1800s, aimed to control almost every aspect of Aboriginal peoples’ lives, including where they lived and worked.
What is the Protection Policy?
In 1863, this U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that enslaved people in Confederate states were free.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This international organisation was created in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation among nations
What is the United Nations
This man is credited with instigating the Freedom Rides in Australia that occurred in 1965
Who is Charles Perkins?
What is 1938?
This term refers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were removed from their families between the 1910s and 1970s.
What is the Stolen Generation?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the doctrine of “separate but equal,” legalising racial segregation in the United States.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
These five countries hold permanent seats on the UN Security Council.
Who are the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China?
This person was famous for refusing to move from their seat in a bus in Montgomery, Alabama
Who is Rosa Parks?
The location of Martin Luther King's 'I have a Dream' speech
What is Washington D.C?
Under this mid-20th century policy, Aboriginal people were encouraged or forced to adopt white culture and stop practising their own traditions.
What is the Assimilation Policy?
These buses traveled through the South in 1961 to challenge segregation in interstate travel.
What are the Freedom Rides?
What is 30 articles?
The inspirational figure was a key leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He recited to the world his 'I have a Dream' speech at the March on Washington rally.
Who is Martin Luther King?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the American South from the late 1800s to the 1960s.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
In 1992, this Torres Strait Islander man’s case led the High Court to recognise native title and overturn terra nullius.
Who is Eddie Mabo?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
The President of the UN General Assembly from 1948 to 1949 Doc Evatt was of this nationality
What is Australian?
The death in 1963 of this Civil Rights figure triggered significant protests, including thousands who marched in a funeral procession
Who is Medger Evers?
These peaceful protests involved African Americans sitting at whites-only lunch counters and refusing to leave until they were served
What are sit-ins?
The 2008 speech in Parliament by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally said this word to the Stolen Generations for the harm caused by past government policies.
What is Sorry?
This famous phrase from Plessy v. Ferguson described the justification for racial segregation laws that lasted for decades
What is Separate but Equal?
The UN currently has this many member states
This Black nationalist leader and member of the Nation of Islam was assassinated in 1965 after breaking from the group
Who is Malcolm X?
This term refers to racially motivated violence in southern states used to intimidate Black voters and activists.
What is lynching?