Charles Perkin and the Freedom Rights
HISTORY ASSIGNMENT-CHARLES PERKIN AND THE FREEDOM RIGHTS
Mr Charles Perkins you were an activist, bureaucrat, university graduate, a soccer star and a secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. How do you do it. Thank you for coming today.
No, it’s my pleasure.
So Charles, let’s start off with your childhood. Can you tell me about your past, up to the Freedom Rides?
Well I was born in a town called Alice Springs, in a compound called the Alice Spring Telegraph Station aboriginal reserve, but we called it the bungalow. Many of my family and other Aboriginals lived in the Bungalow. My parents an Arrente mother and a Kaldoon father had 12 children including me. When I was 10 I was taken away and moved into the St. Francis House in Adelaide. I was discriminated and bullied a lot during my school years but then it turned out I was really good at soccer and I moved to England and I became a professional player at Everton at 1956, no it was 1957, then I when to play at Adelaide Croatian and the Sydney Pan Hellenic Club But before that I then went to Metropolitan Business College in Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor in Arts in University of Sydney.
Charles, can you explain what the Freedom Rides are?
Yes, well the freedom rides was an event led by me and the SAFA or Student Action for Aboriginals, where we as activists go a bus tour to rural towns and areas around New South Wales, to protest against and expose the discrimination of Aboriginals and the living conditions, education, and health conditions of Aborigines. Me and the SAFA when around to film and protest in public places where racism was at its peak. This event was to raise awareness on the matter of racial discrimination.
I heard in a RSL in Walgett refused to allow two aboriginal ex-service men whom both had served in two world wars into the club, even on Anzac day. Can you tell me what happened when you entered that club?
Can you explain what happened in Moree. And more specifically in
Mr Charles Perkins you were an activist, bureaucrat, university graduate, a soccer star and a secretary of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. How do you do it. Thank you for coming today.
No, it’s my pleasure.
So Charles, let’s start off with your childhood. Can you tell me about your past, up to the Freedom Rides?
Well I was born in a town called Alice Springs, in a compound called the Alice Spring Telegraph Station aboriginal reserve, but we called it the bungalow. Many of my family and other Aboriginals lived in the Bungalow. My parents an Arrente mother and a Kaldoon father had 12 children including me. When I was 10 I was taken away and moved into the St. Francis House in Adelaide. I was discriminated and bullied a lot during my school years but then it turned out I was really good at soccer and I moved to England and I became a professional player at Everton at 1956, no it was 1957, then I when to play at Adelaide Croatian and the Sydney Pan Hellenic Club But before that I then went to Metropolitan Business College in Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor in Arts in University of Sydney.
Charles, can you explain what the Freedom Rides are?
Yes, well the freedom rides was an event led by me and the SAFA or Student Action for Aboriginals, where we as activists go a bus tour to rural towns and areas around New South Wales, to protest against and expose the discrimination of Aboriginals and the living conditions, education, and health conditions of Aborigines. Me and the SAFA when around to film and protest in public places where racism was at its peak. This event was to raise awareness on the matter of racial discrimination.
I heard in a RSL in Walgett refused to allow two aboriginal ex-service men whom both had served in two world wars into the club, even on Anzac day. Can you tell me what happened when you entered that club?
Can you explain what happened in Moree. And more specifically in