when: 07 May 2025 - 13 July 2025 | venue: Glebe Library | cost: Free | address: 186-194 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
published: 21 May 2025, 5 min read
Join us at Glebe Library to see an exhibition of historic photographs from the 1965 Freedom Ride.
See historic photographs of this defining moment in Australian history. The exhibition also features portraits of people who lived in the towns when the bus visited.
February 2025 marked 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.
Photographs in the display are courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and the SEARCH Foundation. The photographs were taken by Noel Hazard, a journalist and photographer for The Tribune, the Communist Party of Australia's newspaper.
Find out more at the Sydney Barani website.
Image 1: Aboriginal men and children, photographed by Noel Hazard
Image 2: Freedom Ride protest bus, photographed by Noel Hazard
Image 3: Freedom Ride student protesters including Arrente/Kalkadoon man Charles Perkins, photographed by Noel Hazard
Credit: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, courtesy SEARCH Foundation
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Join us at Glebe Library to see an exhibition of historic photographs from the 1965 Freedom Ride.
See historic photographs of this defining moment in Australian history. The exhibition also features portraits of people who lived in the towns when the bus visited.
February 2025 marked 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.
Photographs in the display are courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and the SEARCH Foundation. The photographs were taken by Noel Hazard, a journalist and photographer for The Tribune, the Communist Party of Australia's newspaper.
Find out more at the Sydney Barani website.
Image 1: Aboriginal men and children, photographed by Noel Hazard
Image 2: Freedom Ride protest bus, photographed by Noel Hazard
Image 3: Freedom Ride student protesters including Arrente/Kalkadoon man Charles Perkins, photographed by Noel Hazard
Credit: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, courtesy SEARCH Foundation
Go see On the Road to Justice: Remembering the Freedom Ride 2025.
On the Road to Justice: Remembering the Freedom Ride 2025 is on 07 May 2025 - 13 July 2025. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Glebe. Call 02 9265 9333 for details.
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