Freedom Ride Exhibition, NSW State Library, 5 Sep 2015 – 29 Nov 2015
This amazing exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the SEARCH Foundation and the State Library of NSW which has recently digitised the extensive collection of Tribune photographs and negatives. We are now in discussion about the digitisation of the complete editions of the Tribune Newspaper. If you get a chance, do see this exhibition of the Freedom ride which was led by and involved members of the CPA 50 years ago this year. For further details see:
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/
As the Library says in its marketing of the exhibition:
'Take a fresh look at this iconic moment in Australian history, when a busload of students from the University of Sydney set off around country NSW to expose discrimination and racism against Aboriginal people. While the students' aim was to attract the attention of mainstream media, also travelling with them was a reporter/photographer from the Tribune, the weekly newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia. Of more than 100 photographs taken by the Tribune's 'special correspondent', only a handful were ever published.
Now, recently digitised to mark the 50th anniversary of the '65 Freedom Ride, these images provide a compelling alternative view of an event that captured the headlines nationally and internationally and is widely considered a turning point in Australian race relations.'
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