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1938 Day of Mourning in Sydney

Layer: Protests and Rights - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
Link back to source:: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/day_of_mourning_1938#:~:text=the%2026th%20of%20January%2C%201938,white%20invaders%20of%20this%20country
Type: Other

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Latitude: -33.866916
Longitude: 151.208289
Start Date: 1938-01-26
End Date: 1938-01-26

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Layer Warning:: This layer contains names of people who have passed.; On 26 January 1938 (the 150th anniversary of British colonisation), approx. 100 Aboriginal people gathered in Sydney in a protest event called the Day of Mourning and Protest. The protest was intended to raise awareness of Indigenous issues to non-Indigenous Australians. The organisers of the protest stated: "...the 26th of January, 1938 is not a day of rejoicing for Australia's Aborigines; it is a day of mourning. This festival of 150 years of so-called 'progress' in Australia commemorates also 150 years of misery and degradation imposed upon the original native inhabitants by the white invaders of this country." (Source: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/day_of_mourning_1938#:~:text=the%2026th%20of%20January%2C%201938,white%20invaders%20of%20this%20country.)

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