• Title
  Item 533: Tribune negatives including meeting of FCAATSI leaders at Sydney Town Hall and protestors at Day of Mourning memorial gathering and procession in Sydney, 28 April 1970-29 April 1970
• Call number
  ON 161/Item 533
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  28 April 1970-29 April 1970
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  1342006
• Physical Description
  36 negatives - 35 mm.
  
• Scope and Content
  This collection comprises photographs of protesters at Day of Mourning memorial gathering at Hyde Park and procession along Oxford Street and Flinders Street to Moore Park and La Perouse, 29 April 1970. Also includes three photographs of Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) leaders and activists speaking at meeting held in the Lower Hall of Sydney Town Hall in resistance to the Captain Cook Bicentenary Celebrations and re-enactment of Captain Cook's landing at Kurnell, 28 April 1970.
  
  1-2. Herbert "Bert" Groves, FCAATSI, Sydney Town Hall, 28 April 1970
  3-5. Protesters with red headbands and signs leaving Hyde Park, Sydney, 29 April 1970
  6-8. Protesters proceeding down Oxford Street, Sydney, 29 April 1970
  9. Robert "Wally" Cooper and Myra Atkinson-Cooper, Sydney, 29 April 1970
  10. Protesters from Victoria including Esmai Bamblett, Barry Walker, Leanne Miller, Geraldine Bamblett, Beverly Briggs, Julie Andrews, Geraldine Briggs, Margaret Briggs, 29 April 1970
  11. Unidentified protester, 29 April 1970
  12. Indigenous woman holding child, 29 April 1970
  13. Group of protesters holding sign "Jotijota Victoria", 29 April 1970
  14-15. Protesters with signs and wreaths of mourning on beach at La Perouse, Sydney, 29 April 1970
  16-17. Pastor Frank Roberts (left) and Doug Nicholls (right) carrying wreaths of mourning on beach at La Perouse, Sydney, 29 April 1970
  18. Trudy Longbottom (centre) holding wreath of mourning, John Newfong (left) and Pastor Frank Roberts (right). 29 April 1970
  19. Trudy Longbottom (centre) interviewed during mourning ceremony, John Newfong (behind) and Pastor Frank Roberts (right), 29 April 1970
  20-21. Group of protesters with signs, 29 April 1970
  22-24. Pastor Frank Roberts (left) Trudy Longbottom (centre) and John Newfong (right) prepare to carry wreaths to the shore at Kamay, 29 April 1970
  25. Wreaths of mourning in the ocean at Kamay, 29 April 1970
  26. Harriet Ellis throwing wreath of mouring into ocean at Kamay, 29 April 1970
  27-28. Wreaths of mouring in the ocean at Kamay, 29 April 1970
  29-30. Doug Nicholls (centre) and protesters make their way to La Perouse Point, 29 April 1970
  31-33. Group of protesters with banner "Extend democracy to our Aborigines", 29 April 1970
  34-35. Protesters holding signs, 29 April 1970
  36. Herbert "Bert" Groves, FCAATSI, Sydney Town Hall, 28 April 1970
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: SEARCH Foundation
  Creative Commons license: Reproduction and rights for the images are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 BY International Licence. Under this licence you are free to copy, distribute, remix and build upon this content as long as you acknowledge the State Library of New South Wales and the SEARCH Foundation
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy SEARCH Foundation
• Description source
  
  Contents list transcribed from original index held with the collection at ON 161 (Diary Pix Events 1964/1965 with additional notes / compiled by Noel Hazard), with additional information from original negative sleeve and from item in hand.
• Subject
  Groves, Herbert S., 1907-1970
  Cooper, Robert, 1949-2015
  Nicholls, Doug, 1906-1988
  Newfong, John, 1943-1999
  Longbottom, Trudy
  Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
  Aboriginal Australians--Civil rights.
  Cook, James, 1728-1779--Anniversaries, etc.
  Day of Mourning, 29 April 1970.
  Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Celebrations
  Sydney Town Hall (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Oxford Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  La Perouse (N.S.W.)
  Kamay Botany Bay National Park (N.S.W.)
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  posters & placards
  processions
  meetings
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4567068

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