After the Freedom Ride

What the Freedom Riders Said:

The student bus: SAFA interviewed, in Outlook, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 1965, p. 4-10 (interviews with Charles Perkins, Jim Spigelman, Patricia Healy, Patrick Dawson and John Butterworth)

SAFA interviewed [manuscript version] Part 1, Part 2, MS 4185, Freedom Ride Papers of Pat Healy, AIATSIS Library, Canberra.

Student Action for Aborigines Report, p. 47-48. Perkins, Charles: [FCAATSI] Conference on Aboriginal Affairs 1965

Beth Hansen: Our Freedom Ride, in Overland, No. 32, Spring 1965, p. 38-40

Jim Spigelman: Reactions to the SAFA Tour, in Dissent, No. 14, Winter 1965, p. 44-49

Jim Spigelman: Student Action for Aborigines, in Vestes, The Australian University Review, Vol. III, No. 2, June 1965, p. 116-118

Follow up meeting, Freedom Ride and You: Public Meeting [SAFA, April 1965?]

SAFA Submission to the Joint Committee of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly upon Aborigines Welfare’, June 1966

Ann Curthoys: The Freedom Ride – Its Significance Today

Public Lecture by Prof Ann Curthoys at the National Museum of Australia Wednesday 4 September 2002

Reenactments

In 2005 to commemorate forty years since the Freedom Ride, ReconciliACTION NSW, a group of young people in New South Wales who support reconciliation retraced the Freedom Ride. They made an excellent documentary Freedom Rides - 40 years on. More information is available at their website at http://reconciliaction.org.au/nsw/

In 2011 another group of year 12 students from the Central Coast of New South Wales also retraced the path of the Freedom Ride of 1965. Organised by Koori Connect the ride asked Elders at each community what they thought of constitutional recognition. Read more about the 2011 reenactment at Koori Connect website http://www.youthconnections.com.au/koori-connect

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