Landmark event: Freedom Rides <Tab/>The landmark event that I have chose to focus on is the Freedom Rides of the late 60's.The Freedom Rides against racial discrimination in New South Wales country towns held during the 1965 was a landmark event in Aboriginal political activism. The attitudes towards the Rides and their participants at the time are interesting from a social and political perspective. By analyzing newspaper articles written around …
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…white and therefore they should be entitled to enter the RSL whenever they were able not just on specific days. <Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/><Tab/>Bibliography: 'Aborigine rights clash in Walgett', The Tribune, 17 February, p1. 'Students Visit Walgett', the Spectator,17 February 1965,p1. 'Students protest at baths on Aboriginal pupils', The Sydney Morning Herald,26 February,p4.