Rare glimpses of life during the Koori struggle for justice 1938 - 1999

The 1960s
1965 'Freedom Ride'

Further Reading on the Freedom Ride

Highly Recommended:

Ann Curthoys, Freedom Ride: a freedom rider remembers, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, 2002.

Julie Fenwick's Review of "Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers"

Other resource material:

Read, Peter, Charles Perkins: A Biography, Ringwood, Penguin, 2001.

"Charles Perkins", in Rintoul, S., The Wailing: A National Black Oral History, Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1993

Read, P., Charles Perkins: A Biography, Rongwood, Penguin, 2001.

Perkins, C., A Bastard Like Me, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1975.

The Freedom Rides in Australia - This website is based on Darce Cassidy's radio documentary of the 1965 Freedom Ride

Foley, G., Black Power in Redfern 1968 - 1972


Miller, J., Koori: A Will to Win, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1985.

Goodall, H., Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW, 1770 - 1992, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996.

Peck, J., Freedom Ride, Grove Press, New York, 1962.


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