Filter by
City of Sydney

On the Road to Justice: Remembering the Freedom Ride

When

Weekdays, 10am to 4pm Thursday 13 February to Thursday 13 March

Cost

Free

Join us at this special photo exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Ride.

See historic photographs of this defining moment in Australian history. The exhibition also features contemporary portraits of people who lived in the towns when the bus visited.

February marks the 60-year anniversary of a historic protest bus ride around NSW aimed at exposing systemic racism against Aboriginal people. 

Influenced by the Freedom Rides and civil rights movement in the United States, 29 students including Arrente/Kalkadoon man Charles Perkins, set off on a bus tour from the University of Sydney on 12 February 1965.  

The group visited 16 regional towns in 15 days, confronting the racism experienced by Aboriginal people including segregation and exclusion.

Image: Aboriginal men and children, photographed by Noel Hazard

Credit: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, courtesy SEARCH Foundation

Contact event organiser

City of Sydney

Accessibility

Advertisement

More events in Exhibitions

Fourth Dimension group show

Fourth Dimension group show

Four artists from very different backgrounds come together to create an intriguing visual journey
Tomorrow
Little Sydney Lives Retrospective

Little Sydney Lives Retrospective

Celebrating prize-winning photographs from 2018 to 2023
Tomorrow
On the Road to Justice: Remembering the Freedom Ride

On the Road to Justice: Remembering the Freedom Ride

Explore historic photographs of the 1965 protest bus ride exposing racism and discrimination against Aboriginal people
Tomorrow
Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country exhibition

Seeing Sydney, Knowing Country exhibition

Follow the development of the NSW colony through a selection of historical maps, plans, artworks & objects
Tomorrow
Souter's Bondi

Souter's Bondi

Iconic murals return home to Bondi
Tomorrow