The Priest Who Tipped His Hat

When Desmond Tutu was nine years old, he was walking with his mother down a street in Johannesburg. Under apartheid, Black South Africans were routinely ignored or degraded by white passersby. But that afternoon, a tall white man in a black cassock approached them — Father Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican priest. As he passed, he did something that stunned young Desmond.…