Desmond Tutu
Subtitle: fighting apartheid
By: Samuel Willard Crompton
Series: Modern peacemakers
Publisher: Chelsea House; Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780791092217
Subjects: Tutu, Desmond; Church of the Province of South Africa -- Bishops -- Biography; Anglican Communion -- South Africa -- Bishops -- Biography; Apartheid -- South Africa; South Africa -- Race relations; South Africa -- Church history
Description: The series Modern Peacemakers profiles key recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize and the work they were doing when they received the award. Desmond Tutu was awarded the Prize in 1984 for being according to the Nobel committee, "a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of aparteid in South Africa ..."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Soweto; title: Humble beginnings; title: Teacher and priest; title: The crisis comes; title: The prize of peace; title: The dark before the dawn; title: The walls come tumbling down; title: Truth and reconciliation commission; title: Peace in old age