The Struggle for Equal Rights

Question 1

In what year did the suffragists hand in their petition for women’s suffrage?

Answer 1

1866

Question 2

What are the seven strands of gender equality?

Answer 2

home and family
reproductive rights 
education
work
women at the top
political representation
violence against women

Question 3

When did the Windrush arrive?

Answer 3

1948

Question 4

How many migrants were on the windrush?

Answer 4

up to 500 (check this)

Question 5

Why did people from the west indies come to Britain?

Answer 5

• The government needed more workers, especially for the NHS

- They came to get a better job, work for 5 or 6 years, (while sending money to their family) and then go back

Question 6

Between 1948 and 1970, how many migrants came to Britain?

Answer 6

1/2 a million

Question 7

When did the first woman take a seat in parliament, and what was her name?

Answer 7

Nancy Astor in 1919

Question 8

In what year does the University of London accept women on the same terms as men, and how many women graduated two years later?

Answer 8

1878 (four women in 1880)

Question 9

When are contraceptive pills first available from the NHS?

Answer 9

1961

Question 10

When is the age of consent raised to 16?

Answer 10

1885

Question 11

When does it become illegal to discriminate against women in work?

Answer 11

1975

Question 12

When is the Suffragist’s petition brought to parliament?

Answer 12

1866

Question 13

When is rape in marriage made a crime?

Answer 13

1994

Question 14

When did a change in attitude regarding disability rights come about in Britain, and why?

Answer 14

In the late 1940s-

• war heroes often came back with missing limbs or PTSD
• Due to the Nazi’s T4 program, people didn’t want to assosociate themselves with them
• the government passed an act to help people with disabilities get jobs

Question 15

Who was Ludwig Guttman?

Answer 15

A Jewish refugee from the Holocaust and a German doctor who helped treat paralysed patients and keep them active. His work eventually led to the creation of the Paralympics.

Question 16

When were the protests for disability rights in Britain, and what was their slogan?

Answer 16

Early 1990s

“Piss on pity”

Question 17

When was the disability discrimination act passed?

Answer 17

November the 8th, 1995

Question 18

The homophobic quote from Leviticus is from which chapter and verse?

Answer 18

Chapter 18, verse 22

Question 19

When were the Stonewall riots?

Answer 19

June 28th, 1969

Question 20

Who was the first woman to take a seat in parliament and when does she do so?

Answer 20

Nancy Astor in 1919

Question 21

When does it become illegal to discriminate against women in work?

Answer 21

1975

Question 22

How were Polish immigrants treated on arrival in England?

Answer 22

They were given language help and polish stores were set up to help them assimilate

Question 23

Which racist group used the slogan ‘Keep Britain White’?

Answer 23

The White Defence League

Question 24

Why did the Notting Hill Riots happen?

Answer 24

It happened because of rising tension between black and white working class families, but the event that sparked the event was a swedish white woman arguing with her black husband. A group of youths noticed, and they started shouting racist slurs at the man, and when his wife tried to protest they started throwing bottles and stones, and hit her with an iron bar. Later that night, three to four hundred white people began attacking houses of black residents.

Question 25

How long did the Notting hill riots last?

Answer 25

For a week

Question 26

When did the Notting Hill Riots start?

Answer 26

29th of August

Question 27

When did the Notting Hills Riots end?

Answer 27

5th of September

Question 28

What happened as a result of the Notting Hill Riots?

Answer 28

The Notting Hill Carnival was set up a year after as a means of healing from the previous year’s riots

Question 29

When was the Bristol Bus Boycott?

Answer 29

1963

Question 30

Why did the Bristol Bus Boycott happen?

Answer 30

After the Bristol Omnibus Company refused to employ black or Asian bus crews.

Question 31

How long did the Bristol Bus Boycott last?

Answer 31

Four months

Question 32

When did the government pass the race relations act?

Answer 32

1965

Question 33

What did the race relations act do?

Answer 33

Made it unlawful to racially discriminate in public places

Question 34

When did the Bristol Omnibus Company announce there would be no more discrimination in employing bus crews?

Answer 34

28th of August, 1963

Question 35

In what year were the Notting Hill Riots?

Answer 35

1958

Question 36

when was section 28 introduced?

Answer 36

1988

Question 37

when was section 28 repealed?

Answer 37

2003

Question 38

which prime minister’s government introduced section 28?

Answer 38

margaret thatcher’s

Question 39

what did section 28 make it illegal to do?

Answer 39

“Promote homosexuality in any maintained school of the acceptability as a pretended family relationship”

Question 40

Why did people say that section 28 was put in place?

Answer 40

to teach children “traditional family values”

Question 41

When was the Criminal Law Amendment act passed?

Answer 41

1895

Question 42

What did the Criminal Law Amendment act do?

Answer 42

Made any male homosexual act illegal, whether or not a witness was present- a letter expressing affection between two men was enough to bring prosecution

Question 43

When was the establishment of the London Gay Liberation Front?

Answer 43

1970

Question 44

When was the Sexual Offences act and what did it do?

Answer 44

1967

Decriminalised homosexual acts between two men over 21

Question 45

When did Belgium decriminalise homosexuality?

Answer 45

1795

Question 46

When were the Gender Recognition Act and the Civil Partnership Act passed?

Answer 46

2004

Question 47

When did the WHO declassify homosexuality as a mental illness

Answer 47

1992