Jack Patten

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Jack Patten

Australian Aboriginal leader

Also known as: John Thomas Patten

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The Aborigines Protection Board, the Aborigines Progressive Association, and the Day of Mourning
…of the Australian Aborigines’ League), Jack Patten, Pearl Gibbs, and other activists. On January 26—Australia Day, the national holiday commemorating the establishment of the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia—protesters, who dressed in black, marched on Australia Hall in Sydney to bring attention to the mistreatment of…
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…of the Australian Aborigines’ League), Jack Patten, Pearl Gibbs, and other activists. On January 26—Australia Day, the national holiday commemorating the establishment of the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia—protesters, who dressed in black, marched on Australia Hall in Sydney to bring attention to the mistreatment of…
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