Ralph Bunche

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Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1904-December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, scholar, and diplomat who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his late 1940s Israel mediation.

He was the first African American to be so honoured.

He was instrumental in the establishment and administration of the United Nations and played a major role in numerous peacekeeping operations sponsored by the UN. President John F. Kennedy gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, which drafted the UN charter in 1945.

In 1946, Bunche appeared on the American delegation to the first session of the United Nations General Assembly.

He came from the United Nations as the head of the Trusteeship Department and began a long line of difficultshooting jobs.

He served as a mediator for the Middle East in 1948, arranging an armistice between Egypt and Israel.

In 1950, he was given the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to this achievement.

He continued to work at the UN, focusing on crises in Egypt (1960), the Congo (1960), Yemen (1964), and Bahrain (1970), reporting directly to the UN secretary general.

He also chaired research groups in the Middle East on water resources.

He was promoted to Undersecretary for special political affairs in 1957, while still having prime responsibility for peacekeeping missions.

Following the conflict between India and Pakistan, he supervised the cease-fire in 1965.

In 1971, he resigned from the UN.

Early life and education

Bunche was born in Detroit, 1904, and baptized at the city's Second Baptist Church. Ralph's family immigrated to Toledo, Ohio, where his father sought a job when he was a child. After Grace's birth in 1909, they returned to Detroit with the help of their maternal aunt, Ethel Johnson. Since Ohio, their father did not live with the family again, and he had not been "a good provider." When they arrived in New Mexico, however, he followed them.

The family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1915, as a result of his mother and uncle's declining health. His mother, "a physically gifted woman who contributed greatly to what her son referred to as a family "bubbling over ideas and opinions," died in 1917 and his uncle followed shortly thereafter. Bunche was raised by Ralph with his maternal grandmother, Lucy Taylor Johnson, who credited with instilling in him his pride in his ethnicity and self-belief.

Lucy Taylor Johnson and her two Bunche grandchildren moved to Los Angeles' South Central neighborhood in 1918. Fred Bunche remarried, but Ralph never saw him again.

Bunche's graduating class at Jefferson High School, a brilliant student, a debater, athlete, and a valedictorian. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and graduated summa cum lauded and Phi Beta Kappa in 1927 as the valedictorian of his class. He obtained a doctorate in political science from the funds his community gave him for his research and a graduate scholarship at Harvard University.

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Academic career

Bunche earned a master's degree in political science in 1928 and a doctorate in 1934, while teaching in Howard University's Department of Political Science, a historically black college. Doctoral students were expected to begin teaching before completing their dissertations were complete. He was the first African American to obtain a PhD in political science from an American university. The Best dissertation on comparative politics in Harvard University's Department of Government, Bunche's 1934 dissertation, "French Administration in Togoland and Dahomey," received the Toppan Prize for the best dissertation on comparative politics.

Ralph Bunche's work as an anthropologist and carried out postdoctoral studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and later at the London School of Economics (LSE), and later at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

In 1936, he published his first book, World View of Race, arguing that "race is a socioeconomic construct that can be and is used effectively to awaken and rationalize emotions [and] an excellent tool for the propagation of group prejudices." Bunche served as the chief research associate to Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal's landmark study of racial dynamics in the United States in 1940, An American Dilemma: The Negro Crisis and Modern Democracy.

Bunche, a historian who taught at Howard University, served as chair of the Department of Political Science for more than two decades (1928–1950). In addition,, he contributed to the Howard School of International Relations with his research into the effects of racism and imperialism on global economic development and international relations.

In 1950, Bunche was elected to the American Philosophical Society. He was the first Black member to be admitted to the Society since its inception in 1743. He served as President of the American Political Science Association from 1953-54. He served as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University (1960-1965), as a member of the Institute of International Education, and as a trustee of Oberlin College, Lincoln University, and New Lincoln School.

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