Seeking racial justice

de Horner, Jack

"When Jack and Jean Horner joined the crowd at a public meeting in Sydney Town Hall in April 1957 they went simply to find out whether Aboriginal people were discriminated against. The meeting launched a historic campaign that culminated in the 1967 referendum to establish Aboriginal citizenship. For the Horners, it began a lifelong association with the movement for Aboriginal advancement." "Part history, part memoir, Seeking Racial Justice is Jack Horner's account of the campaign for Indigenous rights, and his own role as a 'well-meaning whitefella'. His story is a fusion of first-hand experience, personal insight, and meticulous detail drawn from an extensive personal archive. He offers an insider's view of the movement's major figures, among them Faith Bandler, Pearl Gibbs, Bert Groves and Gordon Bryant, and the ideological transition from a belief in assimilation, to integration, to self-determination. It tells of the growing voice of aboriginal people within the movement, and the vexed and painful issue of the declining role for 'whitefellas'." "Writing in a candid and unadorned style, Jack Horner implies his is a small role in a much larger narrative, yet the energy and sacrifice he and his wife gave a cause they passionately believed in shines through the understatement. Seeking Racial Justice is both an engaging personal history and an important link in the history of Indigenous affairs."--BOOK JACKET.