William Cooper : an Aboriginal life story / Bain Attwood.
Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : The Miegunyah Press, 2021.Description: xvii, 277 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780522877939
- 0522877931
- Cooper, William, 1861-1941
- Australian Aborigines League
- Australian Aborigines' League
- Political rights -- History -- Australia
- Biographies
- Political action - Activism
- Politics and Government - Political action - Activism
- Yorta Yorta people D2
- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century
- Political rights -- Australia -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc -- History -- 20th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography
- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Political activists
- Political activists -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Civil rights
- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Cummeragunja (SW NSW SJ55-01)
- Australia -- Race relations -- History
- Australia
- Australian
- 305.89915092 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 305.899 ATT | Available | 063697 |
Includes bibliographical resources (pages 255-267) and index.
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.