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Ralph Bunche
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Bunche at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Ralph Johnson Bunche
August 7, 1904 |
| Died | December 9, 1971 (aged 67) New York City, New York, U.S.
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| Known for | Mediation in Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
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Ralph Bunche (7 August 1903 – 9 December 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. He won it for leading mediation (peace talks) in Palestine during the late 1940s. He was the first African American person to win the prize.
Bunche was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy. For more than twenty years, Bunche served as chairman of the Department of Political Science at Howard University (1928 to 1950). He also taught at the university. He served as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard Univesity (1960–1965), which is the university that he graduated from. He also served as a member of the board of the Institute of International Education, and as a trustee of Oberlin College, Lincoln University, and New Lincoln School.
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Bunche's childhood home with his grandmother in South Los Angeles.
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Ralph Bunche issued passes for United Nations personnel monitoring the 1949 Armistice Agreements.
