Opinion: Tutu’s time in Memphis pointed to need for reconciliation
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died Dec. 26, came to Memphis in 1992 to receive the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Award. (Getty Images file/AFP/Anna Zieminski)
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
The Anglican archbishop who died Sunday, Dec. 26, came to Memphis in 1992 to receive the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Award.
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