Landmark Event: Freedom Rides

Landmark event: Freedom Rides
<Tab/>The landmark event that I have chose to focus on is the Freedom Rides of the late 60's.The Freedom Rides against racial discrimination in New South Wales country towns held during the 1965 was a landmark event in Aboriginal political activism. The attitudes towards the Rides and their participants at the time are interesting from a social and political perspective. By analyzing newspaper articles written around the time that this event occurred one can gain some understanding about the attitudes that existed then. Following is an analysi…