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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African-American civil right activist who’s known for what she did on December 1, 1955. On this date she refused to obey the bus driver who asked her to give up her seat in the “Coloured section” to a white man because all the white section was filled. After refusing she was arrested for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws which was then put down by state courts. Her actions then became important to the civil rights movement and an icon to the resistance to -
Freedom riders (America)
The Freedom Riders are a group of civil rights activists who want to remove racial segregation in certain prejudice areas in America. The freedom ride was conducted by a called “Core” (Congress of Racial Equality) they tried to raise awareness about human rights in segregation by going into buses in which the different colours were not allowed. Breaking these rules almost costed their life when they did the Freedom rides in Birmingham Alabama. This was where the freedom riders were attacked by -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr is an American Civil rights activist who gave a speech to 25,000 civil rights supporters on the steps of the Lincoln Meorial on August 28, 1963. The speech was called “I Have A Dream” this speech included a quote from the Declaration of Independence which said that everyone was equal. Maritn himself said in his speech that one day people won’t judge by a person’s appearance but on the content of their character. -
Charles Parkins
Charles Perkins is an Aboriginals activist who was elected and became the leader of the SAFA which was the (Student Action For Aboriginals). The freedom rides were inspired by the original freedom rides which were conducted by core. Perkins also tried to show that the Aboriginals were also human and were meant to have equal rights as everybody else. The Australian freedom rides exposed how the Native indigenous were discriminated against in their living, education and health conditions. The free -
The Australian Freedom Riders
Freedom Ride was an Idea created by a group of University students in Sydney. Who took inspiration form the American Freedom Rider? The students who organised the freedom rides in Australia called themselves the SAFA. Which stands for Student Action For Aborigines. The president elected for this was Charles Perkins who was born in Alice Springs. They then protested about racial discrimination. What they did was go into high discriminative areas in Australia and try and breach those laws and rais -
The Australia’s 1967 referendum
The Australia’s 1967 referendum was based on giving the aboriginals the right to vote for their country and remove (“the parliament shall, subject to the constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the common wealth with respect to the people of any race other than the aboriginal race in any state, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws”.) allowing the aboriginals to become a part of the commonwealth and include them in the census. This allowed -
1868 constituion
On July 9, 1868 the United States constitution was adopted as one of the reconstruction Amendments. The amendment states that the citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws which was proposed in response to slave trades. The Atlantic slave trade was where Africans were transported to North and South America and then sold to people, who would use them for labour and other purposes of their own. The amendment was contested particularly by people in the Southern states. The slaves in the -
Vincent Lingiari
Vicent Lingiari was an Aboriginal rights activist who became the leader of the Gurindji community. In 1966, Vicent Lingiari led a walk off to protest against the working conditions. The protesters demanded for their land back the strike went on for 8 years. Eventually this led to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 which gave the Aboriginals their land back. A ceremony in 1975 occoured when the Prime Minister at the time Gough Whitlam Poured sand into Vincent Lingiari’s hand which meant that he -
Sorry Day
On May 26, 1998 Australia first national sorry day was held for the “stolen generation”. Which was when the Aboriginal children were taken away from their families with force and then given to other adoptive parents who would take care of them, during the 1950s and 1960s. On February 13, 2008 Australia’s prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a speech apologizing to the Aboriginals about the “Stolen Generations” and the for the laws and policies that made indigenous Australians not a citizen.
