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Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League / Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus.
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0855754591
Author
Attwood, Bain
Title
Thinking Black William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League / Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus.
Publisher and/or associated date/s
Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004.
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Electronic resource ; Online.
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Reproduction Note: Monograph. Melbourne, Vic. RMIT Publishing. 2007.
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Available to Museum Staff only.
Summary
'Thinking Black' tells the story of William Cooper, one of the most important Aboriginal leaders in Australia's history, and the Australian Aborigines' League. Through petitions to government, letters to other campaigners and organisations, and entreaties to friends and well-wishers, 'Thinking Black' reveals the League's passionate campaign for Aboriginal people's rights, their struggle against dispossession and displacement, the denial of rights, and their fight to be citizens in their own country. Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus document the circumstances behind the most significant moments in Cooper's political career - his famous petition to King George V in 1933, his call for a 'Day of Mourning' in 1938, the walk-off from Cummeragunja in 1939 and his opposition to an Aboriginal regiment in 1939. It explores the principles Cooper drew on in his campaigning, not least his 'Letter from an Educated Black', surely one of the most intriguing political testaments written by an Australian leader. 'Thinking Black' sheds new light on the history of what it has meant to be Aboriginal in modern Australia. It reveals the rich and varied cultural traditions, both Aboriginal and British, religious and secular, that have informed Aboriginal people's battle for justice, and their vision of equality in Australia of two peoples: equal yet distinct.
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Cooper, William, -- 1861-1941
Australian Aborigines League
Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
Australia -- Race relations -- Sources
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Markus, Andrew
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