Changing Rights and Freedoms

Question 1

What are civil rights? Give some examples

Answer 1

personal rights under the law that guarantee equal and social opportunity and equal protection under the law regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics.
Examples: vote, fair trial, education, use public facilities

Question 2

What were the general aims of civil rights movements in America and Australia?

Answer 2

abolish institutional racial segregation, discrimination, an activism for equal rights and treatment of African American’s and Australia by removing laws against them,

Question 3

What are the full names of the following organisations?
NAACP
CORE
SCLC

Answer 3

National association for the advancement of coloured people
Congress of racial equity
Southern Christian leadership conference

Question 4

Describe one of the following examples of non-violent protests. Consider the specific purpose, responses and the extent to which it succeeded
-sit-ins
- freedom rides
- bus boycott

Answer 4

Montgomery bus boycott:
resulted in the supreme court ruling segregation on public buses as unconstitutional, helped eliminate early barriers to transportation access, started after Rosa Parkes refused to give up her seat, foundational to the civil rights movement, had a strong economic impact on the public transport system - 3/4 bus rides were African American, bus companies and Montgomery officials refused to meet those demands. Many white citizens retaliated against the African American community: King’s home was bombed, and many boycotters were threatened or fired from their jobs.

Question 5

Advantages of non-violent protests

Answer 5

nobody gets hurt, more people feel safe attending, greater potential for eliciting mass participation, individual protestors are less likely to require any specific kind of training or information, more successful in creating broad base change

Question 6

Disadvantages of non-violent protests

Answer 6

may take a while to be heard or for changes to be made, verbal abuse used more commonly, can be punished for going against the government

Question 7

Why did organisations like Black panthers and individuals like Malcon X oppose violent activism?

Answer 7

Malcolm X, the Black Panthers believed that nonviolent protests could not truly liberate black Americans or give them power over their own lives. They linked the African American liberation movement with liberation movements in Africa and Southeast Asia. They wanted to take action. Urged his fellow Black Americans to protect themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary,” due the hate of oppression