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Australian Policy of Protectionism
Follow the link to the original copy This policy made by the Victorian Government basically said that Aboriginal people were below the White settlers, restricting where they could live whoe they could meet and talk to and who they could marry. This act lead to the creation of the Half Cast Act. -
Jim Crow Laws Created
These set of Laws were introduced in the lower states of Amercia operating between the years of 1877 to January 1964. They basically gave white people legal rights to segregate Black people in all public areas. the name Jim Crow was a nickname for all african amercian people during the period. -
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Jim Crow Laws
These set of Laws were introduced in the lower states of Amercia operating between the years of 1877 to January 1964. They basically gave white people legal rights to segregate Black people in all public areas. the name Jim Crow was a nickname for all african amercian people during the period. -
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Stolen Generation
First hand experence The Stolen Generation was the forcful removal of 10 of thousands of Aboriginal people from their homes and taken into government care. It was basically legal kidnapping, trying to incorporate the aboriginals into white society. one in three children were removed from home. -
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Strikes and Walkouts
THE WAVE HILL WALK-OFF This is one of the well known walk offs that made headlines around the world. it is featured in Paul Kellys song From Little Things Big Things Grow. -
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1st Day of Mourning - Australia
The Day of Mourning is the Australia Day equivalent for Aboriginals in a way, they are both on the same day. however is reflects on the 200 years of violence and brutality the white settlers had on the original owners. the main protest is against the seisure of sacred land and tribal lands. -
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Assimilation Policy
This policy was made so that the native aboriginal people of Australia would die out throuhg natural elimination and all half casts should be intergrated into white settlement. this whole idea is set on the thinking that Aboriginal people are below a person. -
Brown v. the Board of Education
these were a set off five different legal cases from different parts of the United States to end the segrogation within all schools. Prior to this there were Black schools and White schools one was not allwoed to mix with the other. the map inserted show what the sitiuation was before the segrogation ended. -
Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
On this day in 1955 miss Parks was sitting in the black area of the full bus taking her home after work when a white man boarded, the driver requested that she give up her seat for him. Rosa quietly refused and got arrested, in response to this the Montgomery negros refused to use the bus. With Africian Americans making up 75% of passengers this was a massive economic blow. -
Little Rock Nine
These nine students were the first African Amercian Students to ever enroll into an all white school. after being denied by the governer of Arkansas the president at the time Eisenhower stepped in making sure they could. Ernest Green was the first African American to graduate from the school. They were escorted in to begin with by armed guards of the 101st Airborne Division. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
On this day four black students from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University went into the Greensboro Woolworths to buy toothpaste and other items. they ourchased them from the segregated counter then went to get lunch at the white counter, after not getting served the four students sat there until the store shut. by the fourth over 300 people sat insode the store. this lead to the end of segregation in Woolworths stores. -
Electrol Act.
An Act to give to Aboriginal Natives of Australia the right to Enrol and to Vote as Electors of the Commonwealth, and to provide for certain Offences in relation thereto. -
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Civil Rights Act. 1964
This put an end to the ill treatment of African-Amercian people in America, as well as other minority groups like Latin-American. Now there can be no discrimination of people based on: race, colour, sex, religon and nation of origin. this act was signed by President Johnson. -
Freedom Ride - Australia
The ride was organised by the student group SAFA Student Action For Aboriginals. the president of them was Charles Perkins, the aim of the trip was a fact finding trip to highlight racial segrogation in rural Australia. -
Australian Referendum
This referendum was held to decide weather two parts of the Australian constitution should be remover. the two parts are degrading to aboriginal people and segrogate them. they are: 1. Parliament is to make law that bring peace to the people, except aboriginal people. they can have special laws made. 2. When countinf the population of the commonwealth state Aboriginals are not to be counted. -
Mabo v Queensland (AUS)
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Wik Land Rights
Explaining the Case and its outomce that changed Australian Civil Rights towards Aboriginal peoples. the case was still being disputed into the 2000's and the Bligh Government finally handed it back over after 40 years of disputes. -
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Paul Keating Red Fern Address
Paul Keating speech at the start of the year of International Indegious People. Paul admitts all the mistakes that the passed governments had done to the Aboriginal and Torres Straight people. making steps towards full reconciliation.
