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The Australian Federation of Constitution
Aboriginal people are excluded from voting and recieving pension payments. -
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Australia Civil rights
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The Assimilation Policy
Aboriginal people of mixed descent are to be assimilated into white society whether they want to be or not, those not living tribally are to be educated and all others are to stay on reserves. -
Day of Mourning
Aboriginal people of mixed descent are to be assimilated into white society whether they want to be or not, those not living tribally are to be educated and all others are to stay on reserves. -
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US Civil rights movement
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Executive Order 9981
Truman signs Executive order 9981, which states "It is hearby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and oppertunity for all persons in the armed service without regard to race, colour, religion or national origin" -
Landmark Case
The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation. The decision overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal" segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." -
Wolf Whistle
Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case becomes a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated. -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King is made the first president. The SCLC becomes a major force in organizing the civil rights movement and bases its principles on nonviolence and civil disobedience. -
Little Rock Nine
Formerly all-white Central High School learns that integration is easier said than done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine." -
Martin Luther King Arrested
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, -
I have a Dream
About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. -
President Johnson civil rights act
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation. -
Intergration Policy
The intergration policy was indroduced so aboriginal people could have more controll over their lives and society -
Martin Luther King assasinated
Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. -
Native Title Act
Native tittle act is passed through parlament so aboriginal people can claim for their land under certain cercumstances. -
People's walk for Reconciliation
On Sunday 28 May 2000 more than 250,000 people participated in the Corroboree 2000 Bridge Walk across Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of Indigenous Australians. The event highlighted the issue of a lack of an apology by the (then) Australian Government to the Stolen Generations. -
Stolen Genaration Organisation
The organisation 'Stolen Generations Victoria' is set up as a result of the 2003 report of the Stolen Generations taskforce. It was set up so the thousands of Aboriginal children that were stolen could reunite with their families. -
Sorry
Kevin Rudd, the Australian primeinister at the time said sorry on behalf of all people of Australia to the Aboriginal people of this country for all of the hardship that they have had to face.
