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

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Some general wear to book edges. Interior is in near fine condition. Dust jacket has a tear at the top of the spine and creasing at top and tail.

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.