Rights and Freedoms revision crossword

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  1. 4. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families by the government between the 1900s and the 1970s
  2. 6. A secret society of white supremacists who used terror tactics to repress the rights and freedoms of African Americans in the South
  3. 11. The period immediately following the end of the American Civil War
  4. 13. Led the Gurindji Wave Hill walk-off and strike in 1966 and protested for the Gurindji people's land rights. I
  5. 17. Keeps minorities powerless by formally separating them from the dominant group and depriving them of access to the dominant institutions
  6. 18. The basic rights to which all people are entitled as human beings
  7. 19. The first Indigenous Australian to graduate from university, he organised the 1965 Freedom Ride in NSW and worked as a civil rights activist
  8. 20. Black Muslim leader who said African Americans needed to have separate a society from whites, but later changed his views. He was assassinated in 1965
Down
  1. 1. Organised bus rides to places in the South where racial discrimination was practised by people wishing to protest against the discrimination
  2. 2. Four-year conflict between the Northern (Union) and Southern (Confederate) states of America
  3. 3. The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality, without discrimination
  4. 5. A key leader of the Civil Rights movement, he promoted equality and peaceful protest until his assassination in 1968
  5. 7. People and organisations that wanted to abolish (end) slavery
  6. 8. Latin term meaning 'empty land' or 'land belonging to no one.' It was used as the legal justification of the British occupation of Australia in 1788
  7. 9. Laws and social etiquette imposed on the black population of various southern states, designed to enforce racial segregation
  8. 10. Acclaimed Aboriginal singer and songwriter; his song "Took the Children Away" details his experiences as a member of the Stolen Generations
  9. 12. Executive order by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, promising freedom for all slaves if the Union won the war
  10. 14. An official government apology delivered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Indigenous Australians in 2008 for those impacted by the Stolen Generations
  11. 15. Woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed, the Montgomery bus boycott was organised
  12. 16. President of the United States of America during the Civil War