Resources

The following resources are available in the AIATSIS Library

Books

Aborigines Advancement League (Victoria), Victims or Victors: The Story of the Aborigines Advancement League , South Yarra, Vic, Hyland House, 1985

Attwood, Bain, Rights for Aborigines, Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2003

Attwood, Bain, and Markus, Andrew, The struggle for Aboriginal rights: a documentary history, NSW, Allen and Unwin, 1999

Attwood, Bain and Marcus, Andrew, Thinking Black: William Cooper and Australian Aborigines' League, Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2004

Broome, Richard, Aboriginal Victorians : a history since 1800, Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2005.

Clark, Mavis Thopre, The boy from Cumeroogunga, Sydney : Hodder & Stoughton, 1979

Cooper, William, Blood from a stone : William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines League / edited, with an introduction by Andrew Markus, Clayton, Vic.:Monash Publications in History , 1986 1986 Wing

Gammage, Bill and Spearitt,Peter, eds, Australians 1938, Sydney, Farfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987

Horner, Jack, Bill Ferguson : fighter for Aboriginal freedom / a biography by Jack Horner, Dickson, A.C.T.:Jack Horner , 1994

Horner, Jack, Vote Ferguson for Aboriginal freedom, Australian and New Zealand Book Co. 1974

Heiss, Anita, ed., Life in Gadigal country, Marrickville, N.S.W. : Gadigal Information Service Aboriginal Corporation, 2002.

Heiss, Anita, Who am I? : The diary of Mary Talence : Sydney, 1937, Sydney, Scholastic Australia, 2001.

Manuscripts in AIATSIS Library

MS 1515 Gribble, E.R.B. (Ernest Richard Bulmer), 1869-1957, Collected papers, 1892-1970. Finding aid

MS 2022 Horner, Jack, Aboriginal social and political affairs of 1938, especially the Day of Mourning meeting, January 1938 and the Prime Ministers deputation

MS 4112 Horner, Jack, Jack Horner's research notebooks on the life and times of Bill Ferguson. Finding aid


Rare Pamphlets

Patten, J.T. and Ferguson, W., Aborigines claim citizen rights! : a statement of the case for the Aborigines Progressive Association, Sydney : The Publicist , 1938

Articles

Aborigines meet, mourn while white-man nation celebrates, Man Magazine, March 1938, p. 84-85

Aborigines petition the King – 1937, Churinga, Vol. 1, no. 12 May 1970, p. 27- 35

Horner, Jack and Langton, Marcia, The Day of Mourning, p. 28-35, in Bill Gammage and Peter Spearitt (eds), Australians 1938, Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, Broadway, 1987

Markus, Andrew, William Cooper and the 1937 petition to the King, in ‘Aboriginal history’ Vol. 7 no. 1. 1983 p. 46-60

Patten, Jack, Our ten points, in ‘The Australian Abo Call’, No. 1, April 1938, p. 1 (Digitised by AIATSIS Library, pdf 1029kb)

Our Historic Day of Mourning and Protest: Aborigines Conference, held at Australian Hall, 26th
January. 1938: Report of Proceedings, in ‘The Australian Abo Call’, No. 1 April 1938, p. 2 (Digitised by AIATSIS Library, pdf 392kb)


Microforms

MF 311, Papers, 1936-1942 [microform] : re Aborigines Citizenship Committee and Aborigines Progressive Association, together with records of The Publicist Publishing Co. / Percy Reginald Stephensen.
MFE 143, Aborigines, general : 1924-1972 [newspaper clippings from Herald and Weekly Times Ltd.], Aborigines, general : 1924-1972 [newspaper clippings from Herald and Weekly Times Ltd.]