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16 Cards in this Set
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. |
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Rights and Freedoms |
A right which is believed to belong to every person. |
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Civil Rights |
The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. |
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Bus Boycotts |
A seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. |
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Martin Luther King |
King, Martin Luther, Jr. definition. An African-American clergyman and political leader of the twentieth century; the most prominent member of the civil rights movement. |
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Black Panthers |
A member of a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights. |
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Day of Mourning |
The Day of Mourning was a protest held by Aboriginal Australians on 26 January 1938, the sesquicentenary of British colonisation of Australia. |
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Freedom Riders |
A person who challenged racial laws in the American South during in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws governing the segregation of seating in buses. |
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Stolen Generation |
The Aboriginal people forcibly removed from their families as children between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up by white foster families or in institutions. |
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Albert Namatjira |
Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's great artists, and perhaps the best known Aboriginal painter. |
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1967 Referendum |
The Australian referendum of 27 May 1967, called by the Holt Government, approved two amendments to the Australian constitution relating to Indigenous Australians. Technically it was a vote on the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967, which became law on 10 August 1967 following the results of the referendum. The amendments were overwhelmingly endorsed, winning 90.77% of votes cast and carrying in all six states. |
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Tent Embassy |
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a semi-permanent assemblage claiming to represent the political rights of Aboriginal Australians. It is made up of a group of activists, signs and tents that reside on the lawn of Old Parliament House in Canberra, the Australian capital. |
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Land Rights |
The rights of Indigenous peoplesto possess land they traditionally ownedand occupied. |
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Reconciliation |
The coming together of parties dividedby difference. It is basedon the sum of many special moments that together healthe hurt. This is particularly so when the reconciliationinvolves two groups of citizens separated by a longhistory of injustice, misunderstanding and resentment,as has been the case for Australia’s Indigenous peopleand those who came here after 1788. |
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Eddie Marbo |
Eddie Koiki Mabo (c. 29 June 1936 – 21 January 1992) was an Australian man from the Torres Strait Islands known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia which overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius ("land belonging to nobody"). |
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Terra Nullius |
No title (‘land belonging to no-one’) in Australia, the legal idea that sinceno-one was ‘using’ the land when the firstEuropeans arrived, it could be claimed bythe British Crown. Terra nullius, meaning "nobody's land", which is used in international law to describe territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state, or over which any prior sovereign has expressly or implicitly relinquished. |
