MS Acc14.068 comprises correspondence, notes, newsletters, pamphlets, booklets and photographs written and collected by Dr John Kempster relating to Aboriginal Australians advancement in the lead up to the 1967 Referendum. Included in the collection are seven original indigenous artworks on paper. The collection gives insight into the political, social, economic and psychological changes taking place in Australian society in the 1950s and 1960s in regards to how Aboriginal Australian people were being seen and how their needs and aspirations were being understood. Many of the papers in the collection relate to overcoming racial discrimination in the workplace, and in broader society from the viewpoint of white middle-class Australians (3 boxes, 1 map folio).
Dr John Kempster, a Cambridge graduate, emigrated from England to Adelaide in 1959 at the age of 26. His academic field was physics. Once in Australia he became heavily involved in various organisations for the advancement of Aboriginal Australians civil rights in the lead up to the 1967 Referendum. He was president of the South Australian Aboriginal Advancement League and was also involved with the Australian Christian Youth Council, the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement and the Student Christian Movement.
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