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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws were laws to enforce racial segregation in the Southern United States. This gave African Americans seperate status which enforced that the African American's were inferior the white American's. -
Day of Mourning and Protest
The aboriginies of Australia assembled in the conference at the Australian Hall in Sydney. On the 150th annaversary of the Australian settlement. They protested against the treatment they recieved from 'white' men during the past 150 years. They also appealed to have a new policy which would raise them to full citizen status and equality within the community. -
Brown vs Board of Education decision
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955—when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that -
Little Rock High School
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The students, known as the Little Rock Nine, were recruited by Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, Martin Luther King wrote President Dwight D. Eisenhower requesting a swift resolution allowing the students to attend school. -
Petition of FCAA
A petition was held by the federal council for aborginal advancement for the well-being for aboriginies of Australia becuase they are a race that lives in this country. The Petition was for a referendum to change the constitution of the commonwealth which includes the aborginal race as part of the nation and make it's laws apply to them. -
Commonwealth Electoral Act
Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that indiginous people have the right to enrol and vote in federal elections. However, despite this, encouraging aboriginals to enrole was illegal. -
Civil Right Act
This civil rights act proposed by J. F. Kennedy ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion and sex. -
Freedom Ride
People travelled around Westen New South Whale's towns to draw attension to the racism towards aboriginal lead by Charles Perkins whom became a national figure in the fight for rights in aboriginals. -
Gurindji Strike (Wave Hill Walk Off)
"He been treat me fella like a dog alla time"
In august 1966 Aboriginals demonstated outside the legislative assembly in Darwin. Roughly 200 Aboriginals walked off in a protest for equal pay for aboriginals. The protesters camped in Wattie Creek and demanded the return of their traditional lands. The Gurindji campaign was an important factor in leading up to the passing of the "aboriginals Land Rights Act (NT). -
Martin Luther's "I have a dream" speech
On October August 1963 Martin Luther the American civil rights advocate delivered a speech to the 250,000 public civil rights enthusiasts. In the speech he prays for a end to Racism in the United States. The injustices he set out to right were humiliating and the white American population soon realized the overwhelming affect it had on the African decent. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was planning to make a speech about sanitation workers. He was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Room 306.
