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For many decades African-Americans have had many of their right suppressed since the arrival of white settlers on American soil, much like the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders here in Australia. Many Aboriginals had their own children taken away from them to be ‘white washed’ and to grow up in a white community, where they will forget about their long-established and historical traditions and learn new traditions to somewhat fit into white society. These people were known as the stolen generation. In America many of the African-American population tried to make a change in the ongoing racism against them. Later on, parties that took part in the struggle to achieve equality, were called activists. Activism is ‘the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.’ The activism and civil rights movement in the 1960’s in America greatly impacted Australia in the fight for civil rights for Aboriginals. Despite this, the influence of the US civil rights movement has not been entirely successful on the impact of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in achieving change for their rights overall in Australia.
The Civil Rights Movement in the US started around 1954 after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman to help put an end to segregation in the US. As a result she was later arrested. This was one of the major events that led to a push towards the Civil rights movement and was the first large scale of activism against segregation. For many African-Americans doing basic things such as getting home from work was a struggle. Rose parks mentions that when she was on the bus ‘All I was doing was trying to get home from work.’ After the arrest of Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King became the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott. This was significant in growing activist groups for civil rights. Although King was one of the most significant figures in the US Civil Rights movement and is most likely the most talked about, the push for the start of the civil rights movement was started by Parks but this is not recognised enough. During this period women were most likely more suppressed than men as sexism was very prominent at this time. Although both African-American men and women endured pain during this time, we do not hear enough about the women who helped the civil rights movement. The great struggle for women to lead movements was often dominated by men and consequently men became the major figures in history.
The major successes from US Civil rights movements influenced the Australian civil rights movement. It also had motivated non-indigenous Australians to take action against the suppression against Aboriginals. Jack pattern was a major influence to the movements. He organised and created political groups and also published the first Aboriginal newspaper, which would inspire many people, and in 1938 he was also the first person along with his work partner to go to the prime minister and to show their 10 point plan for their rights. The Wave Hill Walk-off was also another significant movement that happened in Australia. This had happened because Aboriginal workers were not getting paid the same amount, despite a law coming out earlier stating that they would get equal pay. Vincent Lingiari went and led 200 people it took place in 1966 on the 23rd of August. this was 80 years after his homeland was invaded by the British and where his people had been tortured and treated poorly but Lingiari decided to take a stand for all aboriginals suffering from the white mans brutality. 9 years later the prime minister at the time, Gough Whitlam, gave back their land and marked a significant day for the indigenous people.
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