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William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story

$35.00

William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story

SKU: 9780522877939 Category: Product ID: 246912

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Title: William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story
Author: ATTWOOD BAIN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 02/11/2021
Imprint: MELBOURNE UNI PRESS
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active

An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist

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 Yorta Yorta 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 the British king George 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 Cumeroogunga 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 have the truth about Australia’s black history heard and win representation in Australia’s political order.

ISBN: 9780522877939
Weight: 1g
Dimension: 1mm X 1mm
Pages: 304

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Weight 1 g
Dimensions 1 × 1 mm