Title Freedom ride : a freedom rider remembers / Ann Curthoys

Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2002

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MELB	994 Cur/Fra		AVAILABLE

Description xxii, 329 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm regular print Contents 1. 'Let's have a Freedom Ride' -- 2. Getting ready -- 3. On the way to Walgett -- 4. High noon at Walgett -- 5. Moree: Australia's Little Rock? -- 6. Clash at Moree -- 7. 'Stirring up trouble': The coastal towns -- 8. Impact -- 9. More Freedom Rides -- 10. Memory and meaning -- Epilogue: Whatever happened to...? Summary In 1965, 29 students from Sydney University set out on a road trip through northwestern NSW, to challenge the ingrained discrimination and racism that was a largely unacknowledged feature of NSW country towns. The trip was marked by confrontation, intense street debates, some physical violence and much courage from local Aborigines Analysis New South Wales Aborigines Protest movements Demonstrations Tertiary students University of Sydney Perkins, Charles Notes Inlcudes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 313-316 Notes Also published as an electronic book (Etitle) by James Bennett Pty. Ltd., in 2003 with ISBN 1741150574 Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library Signed by author 1 copy. ANU Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2003 Subject Cuthroys, Ann -- Travel Curthoys, Ann -- Travel -- Australia -- New South Wales. Curthoys, Ann, 1945- -- Travel. Curthoys, Ann. Curthoys, Ann -- Travel. Curthoys, Ann, 1945- -- Travel -- Australia -- New South Wales. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Government relations. Political activists, Aboriginal Australian. Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights -- Australia -- New South Wales. Civil rights workers -- Australia -- New South Wales. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Economic conditions. Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- Australia -- New South Wales. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Civil rights movements -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 20th century. Discrimination -- Australia. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Social conditions. Civil rights -- Australia. Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights. Civil rights movements -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 1965-1972 Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 -- 1965-1972 Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 -- 1965- New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 Australia -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476 Genre/Form Indigenous focus. Indigenous focus History. LC no. 2003386987 ISBN 1864489227

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