Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Charles N. Perkins, David Williams, Travis Dodd, Jade North, John Kundereri Moriarty, Fred Agius, Tahj Minniecon, Kasey Wehrman, Tanya Oxtoby, Gordon Briscoe, Harry Williams, Tashina Roma, Morgan Cawley, Kyah Simon, Lydia Williams. Excerpt: Charles Perkins Charles Perkins Charles Nelson Perkins, AO, commonly known as Charlie Perkins, (born c.1936/1937, in Alice Springs, Northern Territory died October 19, 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales ) was an Australian Aboriginal activist, football (soccer) player and administrator. He was known as Kumantjayi Perkins in the period immediately following his death. Kumantjayi is a name used to refer to a deceased person in Arrernte culture. Early life Charles Perkins was born to an Arrernte woman and a Kalkadoon man and had 11 brothers and sisters. Perkins was a cousin of artist and soccer player John Moriarty . He married Eileen Munchenberg on 23 September 1961 and had two daughters (Hetti and Rachel ) and one son (Adam). Education He was educated at St Mary's Church School in Alice Springs, St Francis College for Aboriginal Boys in Adelaide, the Metropolitan Business College, Sydney and the University of Sydney from where he graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts, being the first Indigenous Australian to graduate from university. While at university he worked part-time for the City of South Sydney cleaning toilets. Early career Perkins worked as an apprentice fitter and turner for the British Tube Mills company in Adelaide between 1952 and 1957. Public life The Freedom Ride Freedom Ride (Australia) and Freedom Ride (US) In 1965 he was one of the key members of the Freedom Ride - a bus tour through New South Wales by activists protesting discrimination against Aboriginal people in small town Australia. This action was inspired by the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Indigenous Australian Soccer Players: Charles N. Perkins, David Williams, Travis Dodd, Jade North, John Kundereri Moriarty, Fred Agius. To get started finding Indigenous Australian Soccer Players: Charles N. Perkins, David Williams, Travis Dodd, Jade North, John Kundereri Moriarty, Fred Agius, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
62
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155558146
Indigenous Australian Soccer Players: Charles N. Perkins, David Williams, Travis Dodd, Jade North, John Kundereri Moriarty, Fred Agius
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Charles N. Perkins, David Williams, Travis Dodd, Jade North, John Kundereri Moriarty, Fred Agius, Tahj Minniecon, Kasey Wehrman, Tanya Oxtoby, Gordon Briscoe, Harry Williams, Tashina Roma, Morgan Cawley, Kyah Simon, Lydia Williams. Excerpt: Charles Perkins Charles Perkins Charles Nelson Perkins, AO, commonly known as Charlie Perkins, (born c.1936/1937, in Alice Springs, Northern Territory died October 19, 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales ) was an Australian Aboriginal activist, football (soccer) player and administrator. He was known as Kumantjayi Perkins in the period immediately following his death. Kumantjayi is a name used to refer to a deceased person in Arrernte culture. Early life Charles Perkins was born to an Arrernte woman and a Kalkadoon man and had 11 brothers and sisters. Perkins was a cousin of artist and soccer player John Moriarty . He married Eileen Munchenberg on 23 September 1961 and had two daughters (Hetti and Rachel ) and one son (Adam). Education He was educated at St Mary's Church School in Alice Springs, St Francis College for Aboriginal Boys in Adelaide, the Metropolitan Business College, Sydney and the University of Sydney from where he graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts, being the first Indigenous Australian to graduate from university. While at university he worked part-time for the City of South Sydney cleaning toilets. Early career Perkins worked as an apprentice fitter and turner for the British Tube Mills company in Adelaide between 1952 and 1957. Public life The Freedom Ride Freedom Ride (Australia) and Freedom Ride (US) In 1965 he was one of the key members of the Freedom Ride - a bus tour through New South Wales by activists protesting discrimination against Aboriginal people in small town Australia. This action was inspired by the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Indigenous Australian Soccer Players: Charles N. Perkins, David Williams, Travis Dodd, Jade North, John Kundereri Moriarty, Fred Agius. To get started finding Indigenous Australian Soccer Players: Charles N. Perkins, David Williams, Travis Dodd, Jade North, John Kundereri Moriarty, Fred Agius, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.