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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN general assembly. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was brought about due to peoples expeences in the second world war. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African American’s protested their treatment and inequality in their human rights by acts of civil disobedience, for example the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama. The blacks were forced to sit in the back but when the bus was full they were either forced to stand or get off. -
World wide publicity for civil rights movement
During civil rights protests in Birmingham, the Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene Connor uses fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators. These images of brutality, are televised and published widely. They are instrumental in gaining sympathy for the civil rights movement around the world. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King made his famous ‘I have a dream speech’ which called for an end to racism n the USA. He detailed how he looked forward to an America that was free from discrimination and where all blacks were free from slavery and were treated equally. This speech became well known world wide including Australia. -
Civil rights Act of 1964
America passed a Civil rights Act of 1964 that banned discrimination based on “rare, colour, religion, or national origin” in employment and in public places such as buses and cafe’s -
1965 Voting right act
The voting right act was a piece of law that prohibiting discrimination in the voting system. It was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson during the American civil rights movement. -
1965 freedom ride
Like the civil rights movement in America that used public protests to raise awareness of human rights issues, a group of university students in Sydney organised a bus tour of NSW. This trip was to rase awareness of the barrios between aboriginals and whet Australians. This protest became known as the Freedom Ride. -
Australian referendum against discrimination
following the lead taken by the USA in 1964 and after 10 years of campaigning 90% of Australian’s voted in a referendum to remove any references in the Australian constitution that discriminated against aboriginal people. -
National apology
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offers an apology to all Aborigines and the Stolen Generations for all the suffering caused to them over the years. On behalf of the Australian people he said sorry for the human rights that were taken away from them. -
The Americans say sorry
The U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery and for years discrimination, where blacks were treated as second-class citizens in American society.
