Charles Perkins and the Freedom Ride

Charles Perkins was born in

• Melbourne

• Perth

• Aurukun

• Alice Springs

Charles Perkins was a skilled

• Soccer player

• Darts player

• Swimmer

• Basketball player

While at University in Sydney, Charles founded and then became president of the group:

• Indigenous Australian Equality

• Aboriginal Australian Action

• Student Action for Aborigines

• Freedom Riders Australia

Perkins criticised Australia in the wake of the US Civil Rights movement for...

• Not addressing African American civil rights in Australia

• Supporting the movement in the USA then not doing enough to end racism in Australia

• Not supporting the US civil rights movement

• Providing too much support to the US civil rights movement

The year of the Freedom Ride in Australia was

• 1965

• 1962

• 1963

• 1964

The Australian Freedom Ride had 29 protesting riders and took

• 11 days

• 14 days

• 12 days

• 25 days

The Australian Freedom Ride route was mostly through

• Urban Victoria

• Rural Queensland

• Rural NSW

• Urban WA

The aim of the Australian Freedom Ride was to...

• Desegregate buses

• Raise awareness of discrimination against Aboriginal People

• Desegregate schools

• Rescue the Children of the Stolen Generation

The Freedom Ride route visited which of the following towns in QLD?

• Bilambil

• Canungra

• St George

• Warwick

The Freedom Ride chose to visit towns know as being

• Progressive in terms of their ideas around Aboriginal Australian Rights

• Particularly racist

• Quiet, so they would not have to share the bus with too many others