Rights and Freedoms: Rights and Freedoms

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• Modern World History > United Nations > Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

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• The origins and significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including Australia’s involvement in the development of the declaration
• Background to the struggle of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples for rights and freedoms before 1965, including the 1938 Day of Mourning and the Stolen Generations
• The US civil rights movement and its influence on Australia
• The significance of the following for the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: 1962 right to vote federally; 1967 Referendum; Reconciliation; Mabo decision; Bringing Them Home Report (the Stolen Generations), the Apology
• Methods used by civil rights activists to achieve change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and the role of ONE individual or group in the struggle
• The continuing nature of efforts to secure civil rights and freedoms in Australia and throughout the world, such as the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)

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• Better Day Coming: Civil Rights in America in the 20th Century

  from BBC History. Professor Adam Fairclough focuses on the period from World War Two to the present day, to discuss the struggle of African-Americans to achieve civil rights and equality of status in the country of their birth.

DVDs

• Dr Martin Luther King Jr 323.1196073 KIN
• The Civil Rights 323.1196 CIV