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In 2012 Cooper's grandson, Uncle Alf (Boydie) Turner, led a re-enactment of the march by Cooper and his friends. The German consul-general in Melbourne finally accepted a copy of Cooper's protest letter. [47] [48] Also a cantata is being composed to commemorate both "William Cooper’s courage and the 1938 pogrom". [47] [49]
The idea behind NAIDOC goes back to a letter written by William Cooper that was aimed at Aboriginal communities and at churches. It was written on behalf of the Australian Aborigines Progressive Association, an umbrella group for a number of Aboriginal justice movements, and endorsed by around 100 Aboriginal delegates.
William Cooper was a founder of the AAL. The Australian Aborigines' League was established in Melbourne, Australia, in 1933 by William Cooper and others, including Margaret Tucker, Eric Onus, Anna and Caleb Morgan, and Shadrach James [1] (son of Thomas Shadrach James and brother-in-law of Cooper [2]). Cooper was secretary of the League.
The Cummeragunja walk-off was a 1939 protest by Aboriginal Australians at the Cummeragunja Station, an Aboriginal reserve in southern New South Wales.Approximately 100 residents of the station walked off in protest at poor living conditions and mistreatment by the white station manager, as well as the perceived indifference of the Aborigines Protection Board and the state government.
The protest leaders also had support from the Australian Aborigines' League (AAL), based in Victoria and led by William Cooper. [1] In 1888, the centenary of the arrival of the First Fleet, Aboriginal leaders had simply boycotted the Australia Day celebrations. However, this had been ignored by the media.
The main sources for the massacre are the letters of William Thomas, the Assistant Protector of Aborigines of Port Phillip.In an 1840 letter to Superintendent Charles La Trobe, he wrote that "about four years ago 77 people were killed at Little Brighton not nine miles from Melbourne". [7]
A famous and historic letter in support of Scottish hero William Wallace has been put on display on St Andrew’s Day. More than 250 people turned up to see the fragile document which was only on ...
William Cooper (c.1861 - 1941) political activist and community leader, first to lead a recognised national Aboriginal movement Joseph (Joe) Croft (c. 1925 - 1996) was a Gurindji and Mudburra man who was a member of the Stolen Generations and went on to become the first Aboriginal person to attend and Australian university