Civil Rights

Question 1

What is Lynching?

Answer 1

The civilian mob murder of accused criminals.

Question 2

What country had the biggest slave market?

Answer 2

USA

Question 3

How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

Answer 3

380+ Days
December 1955 - December 1956

Question 4

What is Civil Disobedience?

Answer 4

Deliberately breaking laws to provoke a reaction, in a way that is inconvenient and generates change in the law.

Question 5

What were the methods of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 5

• Free taxi services (this was made punishable by law enforcement).
• Car pools (stationed in accessible locations).
• Legal movements to prove police actions and transportation segregation was ‘unconstitutional’.

Question 6

What was the “Aboriginal Protection Act”?

Answer 6

It was an act used to give the power to remove children due to the belief that Aboriginal Peoples were dying out

Question 7

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?

Answer 7

To expose segregation.

Question 8

Where were the two main protests of the Australian Freedom Riders?

Answer 8

The Walgett RSL and the Moree Baths (or the Moree pools)

Question 9

What was the outcome of the Australian Freedom Rides?

Answer 9

It exposed segregation with heavy media presence

Question 10

Who was leading the Australian Freedom Ride?

Answer 10

Charles Perkins

Charles Perkins and a group of students went around rural NSW