Rights and Freedoms Summary Scaffold PDF

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | **Overview** | **The US Civil Rights Movement** | +===================================+===================================+ | - The consequences of WWII and | - The aims and methods of the | |...

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | **Overview** | **The US Civil Rights Movement** | +===================================+===================================+ | - The consequences of WWII and | - The aims and methods of the | | the shaping of the modern | US civil rights movement: | | world in the 20^th^ century. | | | | | | Collective effort to maintain | | | rights and freedoms | - Jim Crow Laws were laws that | | | discriminated against back | | United Nations formed | people | | | | | - The impact of global events | - Key events including: death | | and changes on Australia in | of Emmett Till, 1954 Brown vs | | the 20^th^ century. | Board of Education, Little | | | Rock Nine, 1961 Freedom | | Made them improve the | Rides, March on Washington | | treatment of Aboriginal | | | people | 1865 abolished slavery | | | | | - The purpose of the United | 1868 confirmed black people | | Nations and Australia's | were US citizens | | contribution. | | | | 1870 every US citizen has the | | | right to vote | | | | | - The origins and significance | 1954 Emmet Tiller killed | | of the Universal Declaration | because he was accused of | | of Human Rights. | flirting with a white women | | | in a grocery store | | Originated from the Magna | | | Carta | | | | | | Significance is marked out | | | all humans as being free and | | | equal, regardless of sex, | | | colour, religion or other | | | characteristics. | | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | **Background to the struggle for | **Key events in the Australian | | Australian Rights and Freedoms** | Civil Rights Movement** | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | - The background of Australian | - 1938 Day of Mourning | | government policies to | | | Aboriginal people: | 150^th^ anniversary of | | Protectionism, Assimilation, | British colonization | | Integration, | Aboriginals refused to | | Self-Determination, | celebrate | | Reconciliation | | | | - 1962 right to vote federally | | Protectionism was when | | | Aboriginals were taken from | Gave equal voting rights to | | their lands because the | all Australian citizens | | Europeans believed they | | | couldn't look after | - 1967 Referendum | | themselves and they were | | | segregated from white | change two sections of the | | communities | Constitution in relation | | | to Aboriginal and Torres | | Integration started in 1965 | Strait Islander peoples | | and it was when Aboriginals | | | got the right to run their | Wanted Aboriginal Australians | | own lives and discriminatory | counted in the census | | policies ended meaning all | | | Australian people would be | - 1966 Wave Hill Walk Off | | treated equally | | | | 200 Gurindji stockmen, | | Assimilation was when | servants and their family's | | Aboriginals were moved to the | walked away from the cattle | | outskirts of towns and told | station in protest | | to look white and act white | | | | - 1972 Tent Embassy | | Self-determination was from | | | 1970w onwards when | symbol of Aboriginal protest | | Aboriginals people's right to | against successive | | live a traditional lifestyle | governments and their | | was recognised and having a | approach to Indigenous issues | | say in the policy's that | | | affect them | started by Michael Anderson, | | | Billy Craigie, Tony Coorey | | - White Australian attitudes to | and Bertie Williams | | Indigenous Australians in the | | | early 20^th^ century -- | - The Mabo decision 1992 and | | examples of segregation and | Native Title Act 1993 | | discrimination | | | | Mabo decision was on the 3 | | Laws that prevented them from | June 1992 when the High Court | | going to pools and cinemas | of Australia recognised that | | with white people | a group of Torres Strait | | | Islanders held ownership of | | - Charles Perkins\' life and | Mer (Murray Island) | | achievements | | | | Native Title Act 1993 was a | | Charles Perkins was a civil | law that sets out how native | | rights activist who dedicated | title rights are to be | | his life to achieving justice | recognised and protected. | | for Aboriginal and Torres | | | Strait Islander people. | - 1996 Wik decision | | | | | - Inspiration and Aims of the | Wik people claimed that the | | 1965 Freedom Rides | land should be theirs under | | | native title | | Copied activists in America | | | in an attempt to stop | - 1997 Native Title Amendment | | segregation | Act | | | | | - The Stolen Generation -- | requires that the practices | | background and experiences | and procedures adopted for | | | acquiring native title do not | | Stolen generation was when | cause the native title | | aboriginal people who were | holders concerned to be any | | forcibly removed from their | more disadvantaged than the | | homes between 1790 and 1798 | holders of non-native title | | | rights when their rights are | | | acquired | | | | | | - 1992 Redfern Speech | | | | | | Made by Paul Keating to | | | acknowledge the negative | | | impact the British had on | | | Aboriginal people | | | | | | - 1997 Bringing them Home | | | Report | | | | | | national inquiry that | | | investigated the forced | | | removal of Indigenous | | | children from their families. | | | | | | - 2008 Apology | | | | | | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd | | | offered a formal Apology on | | | behalf of the nation to | | | Australia\'s Indigenous | | | Peoples, particularly the | | | Stolen Generations | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | **The ongoing struggle for civil | **Civil Rights today** | | rights and freedoms in | | | Australia** | | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | - The NT Intervention | - Black Lives Matter, 2020 | | | | | Set restrictions on | Naomi Osaka wore masks with | | Indigenous communities as to | the names if victims of | | prevent child sextual abuse | police attacks | | | | | - Closing the Gap | - Methods of activism including | | | public protests, posters, | | points to the future, a new | music, social media | | path where Aboriginal and | campaigns. | | Torres Strait Islander people | | | share ownership to improve | Many protests have been held | | life outcomes for current and | around the world although | | future generations. | during covid many people were | | | angry because the government | | - The Uluru Statement from the | was preventing them from | | Heart | doing this | | | | | calls for substantive reform | | | to help realise Indigenous | | | rights, through the | | | establishment of an | | | Indigenous Voice to | | | Parliament and a Makarrata | | | Commission. | | | | | | - 2023 referendum resulted in a | | | no vote | | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+