Decolonisation and New Nations · 1945 – 1975
Civil Rights in the USA and Australia
The struggle for racial equality and Indigenous rights in the 1960s.
Key Questions
- 1How did the US Civil Rights Movement influence the 1967 Australian Referendum?
- 2What was the significance of the Freedom Rides in both countries?
- 3How did Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Perkins change their respective nations?
ACARA Content Descriptions
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Year: Year 11
Subject: Modern History
Unit: Decolonisation and New Nations
Period: 1945 – 1975
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