TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mallett,Ashley
TI  - The boys from St Francis
SN  - 9781743055991
AV  - DU320 
U1  - 994.23 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Mile End, S.A.
PB  - Wakefield Press
KW  - Priests
KW  - Australia
KW  - Adelaide (S.A.)
KW  - Children, Aboriginal Australian
KW  - Institutional care
KW  - Relocation
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Stolen generations (Australia)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Enfants australiens (aborigènes)
KW  - Soins en institutions
KW  - Australie
KW  - Adélaïde (Austr.-Mér.)
KW  - Australiens (Aborigènes)
KW  - Générations volées (Australie)
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Australia & New Zealand
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - South Australia
KW  - Adelaide
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
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