Being Aboriginal in Katoomba: 1940s-1960s: Graham Cooper

Uncle Graham Cooper recalls his grandmother, Ethel Cooper’s experiences of racism, his own and how as children “we had to watch out for the black car that kept coming around” to take Aboriginal children.

Keywords: Identity; daily life; childhood; racism; values

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