Yr 10 History Civil Rights Timeline By HeyGurrl Jan 1, 1920 First Aboriginal rights organisations formed Apr 21, 1937 Official policy of assimilation of Aboriginal people Jan 26, 1938 First day of mourning and protest Jun 26, 1945 WWII ends and United Nations Charter is written May 1, 1946 Pilbara aboriginal pastoral strike Protests against Woomera Rocket Tests Dec 9, 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of genecide Dec 10, 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Jan 1, 1949 Geneva Convention Jan 1, 1951 Policy of assimilation of non-British migrants Jan 1, 1953 Aboriginal protests againts atomic testing at Emu/Maraling sites This continued up until 1963 Jul 24, 1954 US Supreme Court ends racially segregated education Continued until 1955 Jul 24, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott (US) begins US Civil Rights Movement begins Jun 10, 1957 Palm Island Strike, Queensland Jan 1, 1962 Indigenous people gain the right to vote in federal elections Nov 22, 1963 US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated Feb 21, 1965 Australain student Freedom Rides Jan 1, 1966 Wattie Creek land rights battle begins May 27, 1967 Constitutional referendum includes indigionous people in national census and gives Federal Government the power to make laws for indigionous people Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated Jan 4, 1969 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Jan 26, 1972 Aboriginal Tent Embassy Established Jan 1, 1976 UN Convenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and cultural Rights Jan 1, 1981 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Aug 10, 1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Jan 1, 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Jun 3, 1992 High Court's Mabo decision May 26, 1997 'Bringing Them Home' report May 27, 2000 Corroboree 2000, Sydney Opera House Continued until 3 June, 2000 Jan 1, 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Feb 12, 2008 Official national apology to members of the stolen Generations Jan 1, 2009 Australia endorses UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Jan 1, 2010 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
