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10 de may. de 2024 · Charles Perkins was an Australian civil servant and activist who was the first Indigenous Australian to head a government department and the most influential figure in the Aboriginal fight for civil rights; he was often compared to American civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charles Nelson Perkins AO, usually known as Charlie Perkins (16 June 1936 – 19 October 2000), was an Aboriginal Australian activist, soccer player and administrator. It is claimed he was the first known Indigenous Australian man to graduate tertiary education.
Learn about Charles Perkins, the first Aboriginal man to graduate from an Australian university and a civil rights activist who organised the Freedom Ride. The centre is named after him and shares his philosophy of collaboration and challenge.
6 de ago. de 2020 · In his pursuit of justice and self-determination for Aboriginal people, Charles Perkins, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon man and lifelong civil rights activist, held a mirror up to Australia.
Learn about the historic Freedom Ride led by Charles Perkins and other students from the University of Sydney in 1965, challenging racism and discrimination against Aboriginal people in regional New South Wales.
Learn about the life and achievements of Charles Perkins, the first Indigenous person to earn a university degree and to head an Australian Government department. See a photograph of him at his desk in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in 1974.
PUBLICATION: Charles Perkins, A Bastard Like Me, Ure Smith, 1975, Sydney. SEX: Male. BIRTH DATE: C.1936-7. BIRTH PLACE: Alice Springs. FIRST LANGUAGE: English. SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES: Alice Springs: Charles was born on a table in the Alice Spring’s Telegraph Station (when it was the Half-caste Institution’.
