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Thinking Black - William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League (Paperback)
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Thinking Black - William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League (Paperback)
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Most non-Indigenous Australians know of Charles Perkins. Many are
familiar with a few other Aboriginal leaders. Yet few have heard of
William Cooper, one of the most important Aboriginal leaders in
Australia's history. "Thinking Black" tells the story of Cooper and
the Australian Aborigines' League, and their campaign for
Aboriginal people's rights. Through petitions to government,
letters to other campaigners and organisations, and entreaties to
friends and well-wishers, the book reveals their passionate
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
1933 petition to King George V, 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 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 people: equal yet distinct.
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