The US Civil Rights movement and its influence on Australia


Students:
  • outline the aims and methods of the US civil rights movement
  • explain how the Freedom Rides in the US inspired civil rights campaigners in Australia
  • discuss the impact of the NSW Freedom Ride on the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples


Martin Luther King.jpg
Chapter 4:4 The Civil Rights Movement.

What was the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s?

Outline what the following were:
  • Jim Crow laws
  • segregation

Outline the following tactics used by Civil Rights campaigners:
  • boycott
  • civil disobedience

You will be sent a shared document and allocated one of the following areas to make notes on: Montgomery bus boycott; Martin Luther King and civil disobedience; Freedom Rides; protest marches; 1963 march on Washington.
Each group is to contribute brief notes to the shared document which covers the following for your topic:
  • When and where
  • Aim
  • Methods
  • Impact or result

"I have a dream..."



Charles Perkins Stamp.jpgChapter 4.5 Charles Perkins and the 1965 Freedom Ride

In groups make notes for one of the following and add to the shared document:
  • The 1965 Freedom Ride
  • Walgett: “Aborigines also fought”
  • Moree: “Darkies not allowed in”
  • The Impact of Charles Perkins and the Freedom Rides


Below are two questions of the type you will be asked in your Assessment Task:

Refer to Source 4 (page 375) and Source 5 (page 376).
How useful would these sources be to an historian studying the 1965 Freedom Ride?

Refer to Source 1 (page 372) and Source 3 (page 374).
Use these sources and your own knowledge to explain the impact of the 1965 Freedom Ride.