Tutu is Coming to Visit!
Description
Dick Bradley recounts the time Bishop Desmond Tutu came to All Saints' Cathedral in Milwaukee.
Broad Perspective
The British segregation of black Africans in South Africa goes back to 1913 when territorial distinctions between black and white people were made legal and blacks were restricted from certain kinds of labor. By the 1950s, racial classifications and interracial marriage prohibitions were codified and enforced. These policies of apartheid became more aggressive as the South African government relocated more than three million black Africans to make room for white people. Pushback within South Africa against these unjust and brutal policies began in the ‘50s, and the international community began to take notice with the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela in 1963 and the United Nations' official recognition in 1973. Desmond Tutu became the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg in 1975, taking his resistance to apartheid to a broader audience and culminating in the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
Scripture
Luke 4:18 (NIV): "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free...