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About pearl Gibbs
she was born in 1901 in La Perouse, Sydney, Pearl Gibbs was an Aboriginal Civil Rights activist who fought for her peoples rights in New South Wales. Joining leading activists, William Ferguson and Jack Patten in Sydney, she would focus on the plight of Aboriginal girls and women. Pearl lobbyed against domestic service, which she called slavery, and the sexual exploitation of these girls. In 1983 Pearl Gibbs passes away serving her people for over fifty years.
family
Peal Gibbs hand a family but now no one knows what her family looked like but there names are Mery Magret Bowen and David Browen
pearl gibbs has one sitter and her sister name is Olga but know one knows what her sitter looked like
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work
Pearl Gibbs' life as an activist for her people began in the 1930s. She was actively involved in the setting up and running of a number of bodies. Some of these were the Aborigines Progressive Association and the Australian Aborigines' League with Bill Ferguson and Jack Patten. Another was the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship, which she co-founded with Faith Bandler. Pearl fought for Aboriginal representation on the Aborigines' Welfare Board and was appointed to this Board herself in 1954. Her lifelong work for justice and citizenship rights for her people is perhaps especially striking when we consider that her fair skin meant that she could have 'passed' as a white woman and enjoyed a much easier life than the one she chose. Pearl was loved and respected by those she worked with in New South Wales. When she was 16, Pearl went to Sydney to work as a cook. There she met other Aboriginal
girls who had been taken away from their families and sent to do household work for white families. Many of these Aboriginal girls were treated badly. Pearl later spoke up for them to the Aborigines Protection Board. She was married in the 1920s and became Mrs. Gibbs. When she separated from her husband she had to bring up her three children by herself. In the 1930s, she organized strikes by Aboriginal women pea-pickers, who were expected to work in very bad conditions, and they achieved some improvements. She also organized aboycott of a cinema to protest against segregation of Aboriginal people.
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later life
she married Robert James Gibbs on the 14th of april 1923 and they so got a separated and Pearl Gibbs had to raise 3 kids on her own.
the day of mourning
January 26 1938 marked the 150th anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet in Australia. For some this was a day to celebrate, for others a day to mourn. On that day a group of Aboriginal men and women gathered at Australia Hall in Sydney. The participants at the first Day of Mourning came from across Australia to continue a struggle that had begun 150 years previously. They met to move the following resolution pearl Gibbs ran this. She had planed this out before
what she had done
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/647204931673/pearl-gibbs
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