Pearl Gibbs
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Pearl Mary Gibbs was an Indigenous Australian activist, and the most prominent female activist within the Aboriginal movement in the early 20th century. She was a member of the Aborigines Progressive
Gibbs, from the collections of the State Library of New South Wales
Pearl Gibbs mural, Dubbo
Jack Patten
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John Thomas Patten was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist and journalist. He was a co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association and led some of the first organised Aboriginal prote
Pearl Gibbs
…at Salt Pan Creek camp in south-western Sydney. Refugee families from the north and south coast and Cummeragunja lived there, including Bill Onus, Jack Patten, and Jack Campbell. In 1933 she organised a strike for Aboriginal pea-pickers. She was one of the first members of the APA, and attracted large crowds…
Patten (standing) with William Cooper at the Day of Mourning in 1938