Rights and Freedoms Flashcards
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Segregation laws. Black people were forbidden from entering or using “white areas”. This included areas such as train compartments, restaurants and bathrooms.
What was the NAACP?
The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. Their goal esd yo fight the Jim Crow Laws through non-violent protests.
What was the Montogomery Bus Boycott?
African Americans in Montogomery, Alabama refused to ride segregated busses. This protest lasted for 382 days and MLK Jr and Rosa Parks were involved.
What were “sit ins”
Non-violent protest where African Americans would peacefully sit at “White Only” counters or establishments to protest about segregation or Jim Crow Laws.
What were the American Freedom Rides?
Bus from Washington DC travelled to the South to protest about segregation laws.
What does Terra Nullius mean?
No man’s land.
Define dispossession
The aciton of depriving someone of their properties, land, possessions and rights.
What were the Protection Policies?
Aboriginal people were sent to Church missions and reserves where they lived in poverty. Supposed to give dispossessed Aborginal people a better life, but its goal was to teach them a European way of life. Gave the Government the right to seperate children from their parents.
What was Assimilation?
A policy which aimed to make Aboriginal children think, act and be white by removing them from their families and cultures. This created the stolen generation.
What was The Day of Mourning?
An Aborginal protest during the celebration of 150 years since the first fleet arrived in Australia. First national gathering of Indigenous people.
What were the Australian Freedom Rides?
A bus ride around western NSW undertaken by Charles Perkins and 28 other Sydney University students.
Stopped at churches, schools and universities to educate about the civil rights movement.
