Darce Cassidy's Freedom Ride website

www.freedomride.net

Darce Cassidy was a student on the Freedom Ride and a Four Corners journalist for the ABC. He has produced his own website where you can read his detailed first-hand accounts of the segregation encountered and the clashes with townsfolk and police.  He has produced a CD of the interviews he made at the time.

Collaborating for Indigenous Rights 1957-1973 – Freedom Ride

http://indigenousrights.net.au/section.asp?sID=33     
This website, hosted by the National Museum of Australia, places the Freedom Ride in the context of the fight for Indigenous rights in Australia.

Charles Perkins speaks about the Freedom Ride

http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/perkins/

The Australian Biography website presents a number of interviews with Charles Perkins, including a video interview about the Freedom Ride.

Articles

The Freedom Riders by Ian Howie-Willis in Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994

pdfs/RB_H_Encyclo.pdf

A journey to fight Aboriginal Discrimination by Ann Curthoys in Australian Geographic Issue 97 (Jan - Mar 2010)
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/a-bus-journey-to-fight-racial-discrimination.htm

The Freedom Ride – Its Significance Today

http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/37.pdf

A Public Lecture by Professor Ann Curthoys at the National Museum of Australia, Wednesday 4 September 2002, sponsored by the National Institute of the Humanities.

Didj“u” Know – Stories. Freedom Rides

Story on the ABCs Indigenous Kids website

Background Information on Walgett

‘Walgett– Then and Now’ 
Walgett’s painful transition’

Freedom Ride, directed by Rachel Perkins,

Australian Film Commission, 1993

Further reading from the AIATSIS Online Catalogue:

MURA®

Freedom Ride manuscripts in AIATSIS Library

MS 4185

MS 4186