Aborigines Progressive Association

Political organisation

Aboriginal organisation that fought for equal rights for Aboriginal people from 1937.

Milestones
Formed
1937
Dissolved
1944
Positions
Member
Flower, Dulcie
Founded by
Ferguson, William
1937
President
Patten, Jack
1937

Aborigines Progressive Association

by Zoe Pollock, 2008

 

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The Aborigines Progressive Association had a leading role in organising the Day of Mourning on Australia Day 1938, and worked for full citizenship rights for Aboriginal people until the mid-1940s.
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