Jack Davis – A boy's life
Jack Davis, who is widely known as a poet and playwright, became the Western Australian state secretary of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) in 1969, after the position had been unfilled for two years.
As a child, Jack had been sent to Moore River settlement north of Perth with the promise of training in farm work but he left when this didn't eventuate. Jack's earlier protests against discriminatory practices such as curfews were as an individual but, by the 1960s, he had become active in the Western Australian Aboriginal Advancement Council, and was appointed as the manager of its Aboriginal community centre in 1967. In 1969 he became director of the Aboriginal Advancement Council.
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