An event at the Woodruff Arts Center will honor the South African theologian and Nobel Peace Prize winner — Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu found a second home in Atlanta during his life of human rights activism.
He made history with Atlanta-based Coca-Cola in the mid-’80s by persuading the company to divest its assets from South Africa until the racist and oppressive apartheid regime ended. Tutu also helped unite the fiercely divided country in the aftermath.
From the late 1940s to 1994, the apartheid regime oppressed the Black South African population, which lacked basic political, economic and social freedoms. Their plight went unnoticed for much of that era, only becoming more widely known in the U.S. in the 1980s.
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