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The Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were a series of racial segregation laws that were enacted between 1876 and 1965 inside the United States. It was about an equal yet racially seperate America. This lead to conditions for the African Americans to be worse than the white Americans. The Jim Crow Laws were amendend in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The amendment of these acts allowed america to unify and progress to a equal society. -
Austrlian Aborigines Conference
The Australian Aborigines Conference otherwise known as the Day of Mourning and Protest, was a protest that was held by the Aborinignals of Australia during the celebration of the 150th anerversity of the landing of the first fleet. The protest was against the callus treatment the aborigionals endured during these 150 years and was also an appeal for a new policy to raise the aborigionals to full citizen status and equallity within the community. -
Australian Aborigines Conference Part 2
This event was a major foundation in the aborigionals political push for equality. The event also raised awareness of the actions of the aborigional protection boards.
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the Montgomery bus boycott
This bus was a political and social campaign that stood against the racial segregation on the transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The protest lasted from December 1 1955 to December 20 1956. When a federal ruling took effect, leading the United States to a Supreme Court decision, declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated busses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King. -
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Little Rock Central High School
When the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, called the National Guard on the 4th of September, 1957 to prevent entry to nine students who had sued for the right attend the integrated high school. These students were chosen because of their high grades. On their 1st day one student showed up as she had not be notified about the danger presented by the protesters. From then one the 9 students had to car pool in military vehicles just to get to school. -
Electorial Act Amendment 1962 pt.2
Indigenous people, this pressure forced a change, in the form of the March 1962, Commonwealth Electorial act. Indigenous people were allowed to enrol and vote in federal elections, if they wished. This was a very significant step in Aborigional equallity, it enabled the aborigionals to influence the democracy and eventually led to, in 1965, Aborigionals gaining the same voting rights as other Australians.
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Electorial Act Amendment 1962
The Electorial Act Amendment was an act that would give the "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". During the 1960s there was an increasing number of Australians who had come to believe that the Aboriginals should have equal, including the right to vote. There was also pressure from outside as well the government had become sensitive about international critism of its treatment of -
I Have a Dream. pt 2
....King's pacifist approach allowed his message to be absorbed and spread through not just the United States, but also places like Africa and Australia where racial segregation was still a major problem. The Martin Luther King speech enabled the civil rights movements all over the world to be set in stone, there was enough support and awareness that the battle for civil rights would never fizzle out and be ignored
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I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech has become to be known as one of the most iconic and influential speeches of all time, standing on the steps of the Lincon Memorial facing the washinton monument where thousands upon thousands of people were standing listening to the message of one man, that all were created equal demanding racial justice and an intergrated society. King's speech appealed to the better nature of his countrymen, rather than preach voilence king's pacifist approach.... -
passing of the civil rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 occurred on July 2nd, 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public areas. It was a crucial legislation that needed to be passed and was long overdue. It allowed black men, woman and children to be fairly treated and to do and go pla -
The SAFA awareness actions "Freedom Ride" 2
SAFA hit the headlines in Febuary 1965, when the students hired a bus and went on a "Freedom Ride", visiting some of the most racist towns in New South Wales. Public places such as town halls, hotels and swimming pools that routinely excluded Aborigional people. A Student was also a freelance reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Commision, Darce Carssidy, Darce filmed some of the ugly confrontations in towns such as Moree and Walgett. The Freedom ride was important because of...... -
The SAFA awareness actions "Freedom Ride" importance 3
The "Freedom Ride" was important because of the way it raised awareness for the racism and predjudice that still excisted in remote and heavily populated areas in Australia. it also displayed the unification of whites and aboriginals
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The SAFA awareness actions
Students of the University of Sydney decide a plan of action that would awaken the nation to the reality of the racism and predjudice that aborigionals were being forced to suffer. The students formed the Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA). The president Charles Perkins, who was one of only two Aboriginal Students at the University attracted the attention of various clubs and individuals, they came from the ALP, the Newman Society, the Jewish Students Union and the Civil Liberties Association. -
1967 Referendum pt 2
The Referendem was considered a step closer to racial equality for people from all nations and cultures, espically the aborigionals
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1967 Referendum
On the 27th of May 1967 Australians voted overwhelmingly to change the Constitution by removing certain phrases that discriminated against Aborigional people. Having Been accpeted by a majority of voters in a majority of states, as well as an overall majority of 90.77%. On the 10th of August 196 the governor general gave her Royal assent on the act and this is the day the 1967 referendum was passed. This was an important change to the constitution as it elminiated racial segregations. -
assassination of Martin Luther King
In March located in Memphis during a march held by martin in support of striking sanitation workers, there was riots and violent acts in the crowd. After a while, martin king decided to return there on the 3rd of April 1968 to show that a peaceful march could be held in the streets of Memphis. This however, had devastating effects in the events that occurred, because he was struck in the right cheek on his face at 6:01 on the 4th of April 1968. -
assassination part two
After Dr King was pronounced dead, his body was moved to Gaston Hospital and the autopsy was run by Dr Terry T Francisco who was the Shelby county medical examiner. Trial was a civil trial, including seventy witnesses, after the four week trial was complete is was titled an assassination because of conspiracy theories. The killer was originally believed to be James earl ray, and he was found guilty of conspiracy and murder, sentenced to a 99 year sentence imprisoned in solitary confinement.
