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Charles perkins

CHARLIE PERKINS AND THE FREEDOM RIDERS

One event that was instrumental in making the Australian public aware of the discrimination that continued against Aborigines in the 1960s was the 1965 Freedom Ride.

During the 1960s groups of American college students organised bus trips around the USA to expose the continuing discrimination against African Americans.  They wanted to help African Americans to achieve the freedom to be treated the same as white Americans. These tips were called “Freedom Rides.”

In Australia in February 1965 a group of 31 Sydney University students and one journalist, under the banner “The Student action for aborigines Council” departed on a bus journey through north-western NSW. The purpose of trip was to highlight discrimination suffered by Indigenous Australians. The group was led by Charles Perkins and Jim Spiegelman and supported by the Reverend Ted Noffs of the Wayside Chapel in Sydney.

Jim Spiegelman became the chief Justice on NSW (the most senior judge) in May 1998.

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 Give 5 examples of the “colour bar” Freedom Rides found.

Answer True or False to these questions

The Walgett RSL Club barred indigenous people form membership. True

 Some Walgett citizens welcomed the Freedom Riders with flowers False

In Moree Freedom riders protested outside the swimming pool True

As a result all Aboriginal children were allowed to swim in the pool at any time. True

Moree resident pelted the Freedom riders with eggs and fruit when they returned True

The Freedom Riders used Civil Disobedience tactics such as blocking the entrance to the pool in Moree. False  

Use the words in the box to fill in the gaps in the passage below:

Charles Perkins was born in    in 1936. His mother Hetti was from the Arrente people near Alex Springs. Her f

ather was a .His father was a kangaroo hunter who also has indigenous family on his mother’s side. From 1945

to 1952 Perkins continued his earlier at an Anglican school as a resident. . 

 Perkins school years were full of  and at age 16 he was forced to leave school and obtained an apprenticeship as

a at the British Tube Mills. He was often referred to there as a ” ”  and was against

in other ways. Although Perkins felt that his schooling provided him with discipline and independence, it also robbed him of a

sense of identity and community.

Project Briefcase 7

1. Define the term ‘beatitude’.

 Beatitude Any of the declarations of blessedness made by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.

2. Explain the purpose of the beatitudes. Set rules made by God to go by in our everyday lives in order to be a good Catholic person who will one day be sent to Heaven.