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The Lone protestor: A M Fernando in Australia and Europe / Fiona Paisley.

The Lone protestor: A M Fernando in Australia and Europe / Fiona Paisley.
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ISBN 9781922059062 (electronic version)
Title The Lone protestor A M Fernando in Australia and Europe / Fiona Paisley.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2012.
Description Electronic resource ; Online.
Publication Dates 2012.
Note Reproduction Note: Monograph. Melbourne, Vic. RMIT Publishing. 2012.
Conditions of access Available to Museum Staff only.
Summary A.M. Fernando is an extraordinary figure in twentieth-century Australian, Aboriginal and world history- a solitary Aboriginal activist who was largely unknown during his lifetime and has remained so for decades since. Yet from the streets of inter-war England and Europe he promoted the Aboriginal cause in remarkably dramatic fashion. ::This book spans the life of Anthony Martin Fernando. It considers his story from his birthplace in Sydney in 1864, through his internment in First World War Austria and the political protests he staged in Europe and Britain in the inter-war years, to his final years in an aged care facility in Second World War London. The first half of Fernando's life in nineteenth-century Australia, his separation from his mother at an early age and his witnessing of injustices towards Aboriginal people would become the source of a series of innovative political actions carried out between 1903 and 1938 in Australia and Europe, including a dramatic picket outside Australia House in London and fiery speeches in Hyde Park. At the heart of Fernando's story is the way that, in cities as far distant as Bern, Rome and London, he courageously translated these experiences of personal dislocation and life-long exile into a vibrant source for political expression on behalf of Aboriginal people.
Subjects Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
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