On the Road to Justice: Remembering the Freedom Ride

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