Peace Warriors by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Author:Andrea Davis Pinkney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

A SMART BOY

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born on October 7, 1931, in the gold-mining town of Klerksdorp, South Africa. He was the middle child in a family of three, and the only boy. Tutu’s father, Zachariah, was an elementary school principal. His mother, Althea, worked as a cook and cleaning woman at a school for blind students.

While growing up, Tutu experienced the unfair treatment black Africans received. Under a government-sanctioned system known as apartheid, South Africa was a segregated country. Apartheid was formalized by South Africa’s National Party in 1948. It ensured that the nearly twenty-three million black people living in the country would be ruled over by about four and a half million white citizens in South Africa. A lot of people accepted apartheid as the natural way of things, believing that it was normal to keep black and white people separated from one another. Black men, women, and children were forced to live in designated sections apart from white South Africans whose homes were in different parts of the country. Black people faced ridicule and condemnation every day. Many people — black and white — didn’t question this. Some believed the world was meant to be this way.

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