Samuel William Watson, also known as Sammy Watson Jnr, was an Aboriginal Australian activist from the 1970s, who in later life stood as a Socialist Alliance candidate. He is known for being a co-found
Watson in 2007 at an Invasion Day rally
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
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The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a permanent protest occupation site as a focus for representing the political rights of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. Established on 26 Janua
Sam Watson (political activist)
…seeking equality for Indigenous Australians "by elevating the race struggle to a class struggle". Watson was involved with, and a spokesperson for, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in its early days in the 1970s. In 1971, Watson and fellow Brisbane activist Denis Walker founded the Australian Black Panther Party, also…
First day of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, outside Parliament House, Canberra, 27 January 1972. Left to right Billy Craigie, Bert Williams, Michael Anderson and Tony Coorey.
Police question Aboriginal Embassy protesters, Canberra, 27 January 1972.
Bobbi Sykes and Gordon Briscoe 1972
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