Nobel Peace Prize Recipient. Desmond Tutu gained international recognition after receiving the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, according to the Nobel Prize committee, "for his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa." At the time of his award, he was the second Black person ever to receive the Nobel Prize. Born Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the son of an improvised teacher, he became a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College. In 1954 he graduated from the University of South Africa before studying theology at St. Peter's Theological College and becoming an Anglican priest in 1961. After relocating to London in 1962, he earned a Master's degree from King's College London. From 1972 to 1975 he served as an associate director for the World Council of Churches. After returning to South Africa, he was appointed dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg in 1975 and was the first Black South African to hold that position. From 1976 to 1978 Tutu served as bishop of Lesotho. Holding a position in South African Council of Churches, he became a leading spokesperson for the rights of Black South Africans. Being the first Black Bishop, Tutu was the bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996. In 1994, after the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela, he was appointed as chair of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate apartheid-era crimes. He retired from the primacy in 1996 and became archbishop emeritus. While preaching forgiveness, his four points of resolving apartheid was equal civil rights for all, the abolition of South Africa's passport laws, a common system of education and the cessation of forced deportation from South Africa to the so-called "homelands." He wrote at least ten books: "Crying in the Wilderness" in 1982 , "Hope and Suffering" in 1984, "The Rainbow People of God" in 1994, "The Essential Desmond Tutu" in 1997, "No Future Without Forgiveness" in 1999, "An African Prayerbook" in 2006, "The Words of Desmond Tutu "in 2007, "The Book of Forgiving" in 2014 and his children's books, "God's Dream" in 2010 and "Desmond and the Very Mean Word" in 2012. He co-authored books with a host of authors including the Dalai Lama, Sister Helen Prejean, and Donna Hicks Ph.D., to name a few. He married on July 2, 1955 and the couple had four children. First diagnosed in 1997 with prostate cancer, he died from the complications of cancer. Besides the Nobel Peace Prize, he received a host of accolades including being elected Fellow of King's College in London in 1978, receiving the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award of Annual Black American Heroes and Heroines in May 1984, and ten honorary doctorate degrees from around the world.