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
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..."
Chapter 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.
The US Civil Rights movement and its influence on Australia
Students:
Chapter 4:4 The Civil Rights Movement.
What was the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s?
Outline what the following were:
Outline the following tactics used by Civil Rights campaigners:
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:
"I have a dream..."
In groups make notes for one of the following and add to the shared document:
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.