The boys from St Francis

dc.contributor.author	Mallett, Ashley
dc.contributor.organisation	Friends of the University of Adelaide Library
dc.contributor.organisation	University of Adelaide
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description	An Author Event presented by the Friends of the University of Adelaide Library, 17 October 2018, Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library.	en
dc.description.abstract	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...	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2440/116686
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.title	The boys from St Francis	en
dc.type	Sound	en

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