Shadrach Livingstone James (15 May 1890 – 7 August 1956) was a teacher, unionist and Aboriginal Australian activist.
[2] James was educated in the mission school run by his father and eventually became qualified as a teaching assistant.
He was elected as secretary of the local branch of the Food Preservers' Union and was for a time vice-president of the Goulburn district council.
and 1955 was honorary secretary of the Australian Aborigines' League, which he helped to establish in Melbourne in 1933, along with his brother-in-law William Cooper and others.
[3][a] In this role he was active in lobbying government to improve living conditions for Aboriginal people.