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It was the first time that Indigenous people had gathered nationwide to protest the way they had been treated. protesting the treatment of first nations people and the celebration of invasion day. -
Rosa parks was in a segregated bus when a white person came over expecting her to her to move for them but she did not she sat there and refused to move. -
On November 17, 1961, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee created a coalition of civil rights organisations to combat segregation and advance voting rights, which gave rise to the Albany Movement. -
Young black students and white civic leaders engaged in highly publicised confrontations as the campaign of nonviolent direct action, led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, came to an end. This resulted in the municipal government changing the city's discrimination laws. -
Martin Luther king makes a speech on the march on Washington he called for equality and freedom for generations in the future.
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A group of University of Sydney students brought racism in New South Wales country communities and the abhorrent living conditions of Aboriginal people to the attention of the nation and the world in 1965. This 15-day bus trip through rural New South Wales, popularly known as the Freedom Ride, would mark a turning point in Australian activism.
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In a referendum held in 1967, more than 90% of Australian voters supported changing our Constitution to grant the federal parliament the authority to enact laws pertaining to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to permit their inclusion in the census. -
The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an official apology to Australia's first nations peoples for the treatment they received for years particularly the stolen generation on behalf of the Australian government