Call for recognition to restore national storybook's 'missing chapter'

By Dan Harrison
Updated May 8 2015 - 6:10pm, first published May 7 2015 - 6:00pm
Aden Ridgeway in front of the Bowraville picture theatre. Photo: Leigh Jensen
Aden Ridgeway in front of the Bowraville picture theatre. Photo: Leigh Jensen
Aden Ridgeway in front of the Bowraville picture theatre. Photo: Leigh Jensen
Aden Ridgeway in front of the Bowraville picture theatre. Photo: Leigh Jensen
Aden Ridgeway in front of the Bowraville picture theatre. Photo: Leigh Jensen
Aden Ridgeway in front of the Bowraville picture theatre. Photo: Leigh Jensen
Aden Ridgeway in front of the Bowraville picture theatre. Photo: Leigh Jensen
Aden Ridgeway in front of the Bowraville picture theatre. Photo: Leigh Jensen

Aden Ridgeway is only 52, but he's old enough to remember a time when segregation of black and white Australians was commonplace.