Rights and Freedoms1945-2015

Mr Shipp, Year 10 History, 2015

Syllabus

Human Rights Development

Its main purpose was to prevent conventional wars from occurring again.

To improve international relationships between countries and provide a forum for discussion when tension exists between sovereignties

The UN focuses largely of rights of all humans especially in areas such as genocide, refugees, targeted civilian attacks in wartime

The Purpose of the United Nations

The History of the United Nations

It established the beginnings of modern enforceable customary law

It is the first global human rights document that specifically addresses individual/group rights

UDHR was then enforced through two covenants - ICESCR and ICCPR

The significance of the Universal Declarationof Human Rights 1948

Eleanor Roosevelt Speech 1948

International Bill of Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1948

International Covenant on Civil

and Political Rights (ICCPR)

1976

International Covenant on

Economic, Social and Cultural

Rights ( ICESCR) 1976

Source: Shipp HR presentation Legal Studies 2013

Personality Time

Herbett V Evatt

• Attorney General of Aust Govt 1941-1949

• He lost two brothers in the wars and was dedicated to civil

• rights of the underdog• The president of the

UN General Assembly

Herb V Evatt

Syllabus

Aboriginal people began forms of non-violent protest against their dispossession

Protests occurred due to agricultural rights, wages, working conditions and then inequality under the law

Background and Origins

Activity Time

Use pages 52-55 to complete the following table

Time Period Event Rights Issue

19th century

20th century before ww1

inter-war years

Australia Day Jan 26, 1938 was declared a day of mourning for the Aboriginal people

Protests were organised to voice concern over the mistreatment of rights to Aboriginals

Day of Mourning 1938

Background and Origins

The removal of aboriginal children from their families during the period of 1905-1970

Historians have debated the positive and negative impacts of this government policy

Stolen Generation

Bringing them Home Inquiry 1997

Source Analysis Time

Source questions S7.19 S7.20 S7.21 S7.22

Who wrote or created the source?

How might the source’s creator be

biased?

Why was the source created?

What does the source suggest about the stolen generation?

How does the perspective in this source differ to the

other sources?Do you think the source is true and

reliable? why or why not?

Stolen Generation Debate

Syllabus

Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 Supreme Court decision that held racially segregated public areas legal

Jim Crow Policy - a policy of racial discrimination and segregation against African Americans

Between 1882 - 1930, 3386 African Americans were known to be lynched by white mobs. They was never any criminal charges laid

Civil Rights in USA

Crash Course History - Civil rights Movement USA

Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka case in the US Supreme Court in May 1954

Found that educational facilities were ‘inherently unequal”

History of the Civl Rights Movement

Source Analysis Time

Dec 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in Alabama. This was in reaction to a 14 yr old murder of a black boy Emett Till

Martin Luther King Jr became the figurehead of the movement who employed tactics of civil disobedience

Freedom Rides were organised by Northern White students and Southern African - American activists to desegregate public transport and restrooms in the south of USA

Civil Rights Movement 1955-68 USA

Freedom Riders in USA

The freedom rides were met with violent retaliation from white supremacists

the contrast between violent white groups and passive freedom riders was widely broadcasted and this led to public outrage

The Civil Rights Act (1964), The Voters Right Act (1965) and the Fair Housing Act (1968) were all influenced from this time

I have a Dream Speech - Martin Luther King Jr

Segregation continued to exist with separate public pools, cinemas and even Aboriginals were instructed to leave the pavement for whites

The US civil rights movement was widely reported in Australia, especially through the new medium of television.

The US freedom rides influenced the beginning of freedom rides to rural NSW

The Impact of the Freedom Rides on Aboriginal Rights in Australia

34 students set out together on a bus from Sydney University to investigate for themselves the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the main country towns of New South Wales.

led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins, an Arrernte man studying Arts at Sydney University

NSW Freedom Rides 1965