William Cooper : an Aboriginal life story
Attwood, Bain2021
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William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights, and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country, has been widely commemorated and celebrated. By carefully reconstructing the historical losses his people suffered and endured, William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story reveals how the first seventy years of Cooper's life inspired the remarkable political work he undertook in the 1930s. Focusing on Cooper's most important campaigns - his famous petition to King George VI for an Aboriginal representative in the Australian parliament, his call for a day of mourning after 150 years of colonisation, the walk-off of the Yorta Yorta people from Cummeragunja reserve in 1939 and his opposition to the establishment of an Aboriginal regiment in the Second World War - this carefully researched study sheds important new light on the long struggle that Indigenous people have fought to tell the truth about Australia's black history and to win representation in Australia's political order.
Main title:
William Cooper : an Aboriginal life story / Bain Attwood.
Author:
Attwood, Bain, author
Imprint:
Carlton, Victoria : The Miegunyah Press, 2021.©2021
Collation:
xvii, 277 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780522877939 (hbk)9780522877939
Dewey class:
305.89915092305.899
Language:
English
Subject:
Cooper, William, 1861-1941Australian Aborigines LeagueAboriginal Australians -- HistoryPolitical activists -- Australia -- BiographyAboriginal Australians -- Civil rightsAboriginal Australians -- Social conditionsAboriginal Australians -- Government relationsAboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th centuryPolitical rights -- Australia -- HistoryAboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- History -- 20th centuryAustralia -- Race relations -- HistoryPolitical action - ActivismPolitics and Government - Political action - ActivismYorta Yorta people D2Cummeragunja (SW NSW SJ55-01)Biographies
BRN:
472666
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 305.899 COO | Available |