Oral history with Desmond Tutu [electronic resource], 1999

Biographical Note

Religious leader.

Scope and Contents

(Born 1931- ) Decision to leave teaching profession for ordination training, 1957; contextualizing Western theology into a uniquely African model; appointment as Anglican Dean of Johannesburg (1975): opportunity to articulate aspirations of the black majority to media; 1976 Soweto uprising as proof of new generation' s willingness to fight for liberation; importance of religion in Africa, world community, and anti-apartheid struggle; importance of support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York [Carnegie] and its role in South Africa: impact of First Inquiry on Poverty in South Africa, role of Carnegie President David Hamburg, Carnegie's support of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and the Legal Resources Centre; witness to human capacity for good and evil as co-chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Subjects

• Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.
• Bishops--South Africa--Interviews.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa.
• Church and social problems--South Africa.
• Clark, Mary Marshall, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Legal Resources Centre (South Africa)
• Oral histories.
• Race relations--Religious aspects--South Africa.
• Religious leaders--Interviews.
• South Africa--History--Soweto Uprising, 1976--Personal narratives.
• South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
• Tutu, Desmond--Interviews.
• University of the Witwatersrand. Centre for Applied Legal Studies.

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