Ralph Bunche
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Ralph Bunche was an American diplomat, educator, and civil rights activist who became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. His achievements in international diplomacy and civil rights made him a groundbreaking figure in twentieth-century efforts to promote peace and racial equality.
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Ralph Johnson Bunche (/bʌntʃ/ BUNCH; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is the first black Nobel laureate and the first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He was involved in the formation and early administration of the United Nations (UN), serving as the under‑secretary‑general and briefly the acting secretary-general in 1953, and played a major role in both the decolonization process and numerous UN peacekeeping operations.
Bunche served on the US delegation to both the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944 and United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945 that drafted the UN charter. He then served on the American delegation to the first session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946 and joined the UN as head of the Trusteeship Department, beginning a long series of troubleshooting roles and responsibilities related to decolonization. In 1948, Bunche became an acting mediator for the Middle East, negotiating an armistice between Egypt and Israel. For this success he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
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1904 births1971 deaths20th-century African-American scientists20th-century American academics20th-century American political scientistsAfrican-American diplomatsAfrican-American political scientistsAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican officials of the United NationsAmerican people of Irish descentBurials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)