| Main Title: |
The boys from St Francis / Ashley Mallett. |
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| Author: |
Mallett, Ashley, 1945-
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| Imprint: |
Wakefield Press, 2018. |
| Collation: |
xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, portraits, paperback ; 20 cm. |
| Summary: |
This remarkable true story pays tribute to a band of Aboriginal boys who grew up together in one group home - many succeeding spectacularly in later life. In 1945, Anglican priest Father Percy Smith brought six boys from their Northern Territory home to an Adelaide beach suburb. There, they became the first boys of St Francis, a place that would house 50 such boys over 11 years. Some were sent, with the blessing of their mothers, to gain an education. Others were members of the Stolen Generations. In their interviews with Ashley Mallett, many of these men recall Father Smith's kindness and care. His successors, however, were often brutal, and the boys faced prejudice in a wider world largely built to exclude Indigenous Australians. The Boys from St Francis is a sometimes shocking, but ultimately hopeful book about black and white Australia, told through one constellation of lives, sharing one seaside address. |
| Subject: |
Smith, Percy McDonald
Moriarty, John.
Perkins, Charles, 1936-2000
Copley, Vince, 1936-2022
Kruger, George.
Thomas, Harold.
Anglican Church
First Nations Australians
First Nations Australians - - Biography
First Nations Australians - - Politics and Australian culture
Race relations
Stolen generations
St. Francis House (Adelaide, SA)
Adelaide (SA)
Suburbs of Adelaide (SA)
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| ISBN: |
9781743055809 |
| Notes: |
"Stories of the remarkable Aboriginal activists, artists and athletes who grew up in one seaside home" -- cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index.
[Variant title:The boys from St Francis : stories of the remarkable Aboriginal activists, artists and athletes who grew up in one seaside home.]
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