Some say he was Australia's Martin Luther King.
William Cooper saw his Aboriginal people dying around him and decided black lives matter.
Starvation and discrimination took their toll.
He became passionate that they should have a voice in Australia's federal parliament.
But his people could not vote and were not even counted in the census.
How could he get the government to listen to him? Would his skills in oratory, letter-writing and organizing his people into the first national black organi.
Barbara Miller Books White australia has a black history: william cooper and first nations peoples' political activism, paperback/barbara miller
