John Thomas Patten (27 March 1905 – 12 October 1957) was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist and journalist. He was a co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association and led some of the first organised Aboriginal protests, including the Day of Mourning in 1938 and the Cummeragunja walk-off of 1939.

John Thomas (Jack) Patten (1905-1957), Aboriginal leader, was born on 27 March 1905 at Moama, New South Wales, eldest of six children of John Thomas Patten, labourer and later police tracker, and his wife Christina Mary, née Middleton.

Feb 29, 2016 · John Thomas Patten (28 March, 1905 – 12 October, 1957) was an Australian Aboriginal leader, professional boxer, journalist and civil rights activist. Early Life. John Thomas Patten was born March 28, 1905, at Cummeragunja, an Aboriginal reserve situated near Moama on the New South Wales side of the Murray River.

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Jack Patten was one of the great Aboriginal leaders of the 20th century and set the agenda for the civil rights movement in Australia. The Yorta Yorta man spoke out against Aboriginal inequality with such vigour that his words resounded across the land.

Australian Aboriginal leader Jack Patten worked to make the Australian government treat Aboriginal people fairly and give them equal rights with white Australians. He was a powerful speaker and organizer.

In 1937 Gibbs joined fellow activists William Ferguson and Jack Patten in the Aborigines Progressive Association, a newly created organization dedicated to ending discrimination against Aboriginal people. She became a public speaker on issues important to women and children and wrote articles for newspapers.

112 years ago on 27 March a prominent Indigenous activist was born. This week we remember journalist, advocate and boxer - Jack Patten, who was the founding father of modern Aboriginal political actions.

Jack Patten joined the Australian Army and served during the Second World War. He was the editor of the Aborigines Progressive Association's Abo Call, which helped break down isolation in Aboriginal communities. He died in an accident in Fitzroy, a …

Jack Patten was born and educated at Cumeroogunga. As a young man, he joined a highly politically conscious Aboriginal camp at Salt Pan Creek, Sydney, where he was surrounded by angry and assertive refugees from Aboriginal reserves on the state’s north and south coasts.