Aborigines Progressive Association

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Proclamation of the Day of Mourning.
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Proclamation of the Day of Mourning.

The Aborigines Progressive Association, or APA, was a body established in the 1920s by Jack Patten in New South Wales to lobby government for basic human rights for Australian Aborigines. Activist Pearl Gibbs was also a member.

In 1938 the APA organised the Day of Mourning on Australia Day of that year to protest the lack of basic human rights available to Aborigines.

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