The Tipped Hat

In 1940s South Africa, a young boy named Desmond Tutu walked with his mother through the streets of Johannesburg. She was a domestic worker, a Black woman in a society that told her daily she was less than human. Then something extraordinary happened. A tall white man in a black cassock approached them on the sidewalk. Father Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican priest, stopped, smiled, and tipped his hat to Tutu's mother.…