Who Was Trevor Huddleston?
1. Anglican Archbishop. 2. Anti-Apartheid Movement 3. see below. Archbishop Trevor Huddleston (born 15 June 1913, died 20 April 1998), an Anglican priest who led the English campaign to end apartheid in South Africa. Trevor Huddleston was educated at Oxford University and became a monk in 1939. Two years later, he was went to work in the black slums near Johannesburg. From the beginning he fought to alleviate poverty and railed against laws that made blacks non-citizens in their own land. In 1956, he was recalled by his superiors, who feared the views expressed in his book might get him expelled. ”I did not want to leave because I loved being in Africa, but I had taken a vow of obedience so I had to,” he told the Associated Press in 1978. South Africa later barred him. On retirement in 1983, he devoted himself full time to the country he had been forced to leave,’ becoming president of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and chairman of the Defense Aid Fund for South Africa. Black South Afri
