Telling the story of Cooper and the Australian Aborigines’ League and their campaign for Aboriginal people’s rights, this account—told through petitions to government, letters to other campaigners and organizations, and entreaties to friends and well-wishers—reveals their passionate struggle against dispossession and displacement, the denial of rights, and their fight to be citizens in their own country.
Language
English
Pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press
Release
January 01, 2004
ISBN
0855754591
ISBN 13
9780855754594
Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League
Telling the story of Cooper and the Australian Aborigines’ League and their campaign for Aboriginal people’s rights, this account—told through petitions to government, letters to other campaigners and organizations, and entreaties to friends and well-wishers—reveals their passionate struggle against dispossession and displacement, the denial of rights, and their fight to be citizens in their own country.