Thursday 10 March 2016

Saturday 22 August 2015

Cath Walker time line

Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal)
1960s  Kath Walker - poet, activist and public speaker
 1941  she  Joining the Australian Women's Army Service
1958   she joined the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders,
1960    Kath attended the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement (FCAA) annual conferences from
1962 she become the first Queensland state secretary in 
1962 she read  her 'Aboriginal Charter of Rights'
1964  in Adelaide she read and in her first collection of poems
1968 she attended a World Council of Churches consultation on racism in London
1970 Kath supported the  Pittock amendments to the FCAATSI constitution which would have increased Indigenous power on the Federal Council
1970s and 1980sreturned to her beloved Stradbroke Island

Sunday 9 August 2015

Nelson Mandella's time line

1918 - Nelson Mandela was born
1944 - Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League
1949 - Nelson Mandel was an instrumental in publishing the ANC
1952 -  Mandela and Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa
1962 - Mandela had been arrested 
1993 -  Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prizej
 1994 - Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically