In 1986, Desmond Tutu became the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa. Two years before in 1984 he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Like his countryman Albert Lutuli, the Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu received the Peace Prize for his opposition to South Africa's brutal apartheid regime. Despite bloody violations committed against the black population, as in the Sharpeville massacre of 1961 and the Soweto rising in 1976, Tutu adhered to his nonviolent line.
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Photo: Desmond Tutu in 2011 in Durban, South Africa. (Photo by Kristen Opalinski/LUCSA) Source Wikimedia Commons.
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