Word: bishops
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Attending the December 3 service by Bishop Desmond Tutu at Memorial Church took me back to two events of my undergraduate years. In 1963, I was part of the August 28 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the famous "I Have a Dream" march. Later that year, Reverend Martin Luther King conducted a Sunday service at Mt. Holyoke College, to which a student friend invited me. I had grown up in North Carolina, but with "Yankee" parents, so, from junior high school on I was able to see the significance of the growing struggle for equality in the South...
While Bok's view did come under indirect attack, he also won praise from Tutu for his efforts to bring Black South African students to study at Harvard. In addition, the bishop praised Harvard for awarding degree in 1979, a move which he said had enormous symbolic importance in his native country...
...also related several anecdotes about the support he has received from Americans, including that of an Anchorite run living in a forest in California who gets up every morning at two and begins her day by praying for the Bishop and his people...
...speech the bishop received a two-minute standing ovation...
...bishop also criticized the new South African constitution, which for the first time allows limited participation in the government for Indians and persons of mixed race. He said the constitution "entrenches racism...