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Desmond TuTu : fighting apartheid / Samuel Willard Crompton.

Title
Desmond TuTu : fighting apartheid / Samuel Willard Crompton.
Author
Crompton, Samuel Willard
Publication
New York : Chelsea House, 2006.

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Description
112 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Summary
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 ..."
Series Statement
Modern peacemakers
Subject
  • 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
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Church history
  • Biographie.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Soweto -- Humble beginnings -- Teacher and priest -- The crisis comes -- The prize of peace -- The dark before the dawn -- The walls come tumbling down -- Truth and reconciliation commission -- Peace in old age.
ISBN
  • 0791092216 (hardcover)
  • 9780791092217 (hardcover)
LCCN
^^2006017556
OCLC
  • 1038952891
  • SCSB-11670670
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library