Civil rights

Yr 10 History Civil Rights Timeline

By HeyGurrl

  • First Aboriginal rights organisations formed

  • Official policy of assimilation of Aboriginal people

  • First day of mourning and protest

  • WWII ends and United Nations Charter is written

  • Pilbara aboriginal pastoral strike Protests against Woomera Rocket Tests

  • United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of genecide

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • Geneva Convention

  • Policy of assimilation of non-British migrants

  • Aboriginal protests againts atomic testing at Emu/Maraling sites

    This continued up until 1963

  • US Supreme Court ends racially segregated education

    Continued until 1955

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott (US) begins

    US Civil Rights Movement begins

  • Palm Island Strike, Queensland

  • Indigenous people gain the right to vote in federal elections

  • US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • Australain student Freedom Rides

  • Wattie Creek land rights battle begins

  • Constitutional referendum includes indigionous people in national census and gives Federal Government the power to make laws for indigionous people

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

  • UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

  • Aboriginal Tent Embassy Established

  • UN Convenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and cultural Rights

  • UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  • Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

  • High Court's Mabo decision

  • 'Bringing Them Home' report

  • Corroboree 2000, Sydney Opera House

    Continued until 3 June, 2000

  • UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  • Official national apology to members of the stolen Generations

  • Australia endorses UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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