Sydneysiders woke on January 26, 1938, to a warm, clear day of festivities to celebrate 150 years since British colonisation.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died.
But in the shadow of a grand sailing regatta, parade and a re-enactment of first contact between the First Fleet and the Eora peoples, a thousand-strong group of Aboriginal men and women marched through Sydney protesting more than a century of brutal mistreatment.
