Australia - Guinea - New Zealand

Sep. 09, 1972 - Australian black power leader in London.: On a visit to London is Miss Bobby Sykes, Australian black power leader. The purpose of her visit is to try and enlist international help for the Australkan Aborgines fight for civil rights. (In Australia, civil rights for Aborigines is an issue in the forthcoming general elections for the first time in the country's history). Miss Sykes an attractive woman in her early 20s, is first executive secretary of the Aboriginal Embassy Canberra. The embassy is housed in a tent of the lawn of Parliament but has been pulled down several times by police after struggles with Australian black power supporters. Photo shows Miss Bobbi Sykes pictured today in Hampstead

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Aboriginal Bobbi Canberra Enlist Hampstead Housed Pulled Purpose Struggles Supporters Sykes

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