Somewhere Between Black and White: The Story of an Aboriginal Australian by Clancy McKenna as told to Kingsley Palmer

Book Description

Secondhand. >Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Mark on right foredge. Previous owner has inscribed inside page. Dust jacket has a tears at the top edge near spine and is now enclosed in a protective cover.

The son of a Nyamil (Nyamal) woman and an Irish father, Clancy was born in 1909 and raised by his mother in the Nyamil camps on Pilbara cattle stations in Western Australia.

Employed under the dual wage scales on the stations, Clancy received a pittance for his labour. Clancy along with others, helped organise the 1946 strike of Aboriginal workers on the Pilbara stations.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please note that this book may contain descriptions and/or images of people who have passed.