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Gadigal Information Service
... Ferguson, Jack Pattern, Pearl Gibbs and William Cooper, all proud strong Aboriginal people, organised and led a march to acknowledge what they called an official 'Day of Mourning'
Workers Mourning Day
The history & origin of Workers Mourning Day... National Aboriginal Day: April Fools' Day... Workers Mourning Day is always observed on...
HSC Online
For Australia Day 1938 the Aboriginal Progressive Association and the Aboriginal Advancement League organised a day of Mourning with a public meeting at the Australia Hall in the city of Sydney
April 28 - National Day of Mourning
OSSTF Supports Lieutenant Governo James Bartleman’s. Aboriginal Literacy Program... Day of Mourning for Persons Killed or Injured in the Workplace (short title: Workers’ Mourning Day...
South Australia - NAIDOC - A History
In January 1940, the Sunday preceding the Australia Day holiday became the first "Day of Mourning" Aboriginal Sunday. In 1955, the NMCA suggested that Aborigines Day should...
Significant Aboriginal Events in Sydney
Leaflets advised that "Aborigines and persons of Aboriginal blood only are invited to attend" the Day of Mourning and Protest Conference at Australian Hall on 26 January 1938.
National Aboriginal Day
The history & origin of National Aboriginal Day... Mother's Day: Workers Mourning Day: Quebec National... National Aboriginal Day is celebrated...
Aboriginal Organisations in Sydney
The APA , led by Ferguson and Jack Patten, planned the 1938 "Day of Mourning Conference and Protest" in Sydney, where the Committee for Aboriginal...
Indigenous Australian music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... and ceremonial observances of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait... their individual and collective histories to the present day... A mourning lament recorded in a number of locations in central and...
Doug Nicholls
Aboriginal People are the skeleton in the cupboard of Australia's national life... outcasts in our own land."... Doug Nicholls, National Day of Mourning speech, 1938.
