jan 26, 1938 - Day Of Mourning

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William Cooper joins forces with William Ferguson and Jack Patten from the Aborigines Progressive Association to plan a day of mourning, describing 26 January 1938 as the ‘150th anniversary of the whitemen’s seizure of our country’. They protest against ‘the callous treatment of our people by the whitemen’ and called for education, new laws and citizenship status for Aboriginal Australians.

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