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	Ralph Bunche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Palestine in the late 1940s that led to an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in the region.
		Bunche was born in Detroit, Michigan to an African-American family; his father was a barber, his mother an amateur musician.
		Bunche died in 1971 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Bunche (769 words)

	Ralph Bunch House
		This house was the residence of Dr. Ralph Bunche, the distinguished African American diplomat and scholar, from 1941 to 1947.
		Ralph Johnson Bunche is internationally known as a scholar who served as Undersecretary-General of the United Nations and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949.
		Between 1929 and 1941, Bunche lived in several Washington, DC h omes, l ocated in the general vicinity of the Howard University campus.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wash/dc93.htm (220 words)

	Ralph Bunche: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bunche was born in Detroit, Michigan (additional info and facts about Detroit, Michigan) to an African-American (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) family; his father was a barber, his mother an amateur musician.
		Bunche died in 1971 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery (additional info and facts about Woodlawn Cemetery) in The Bronx (A borough of New York City).
		Bunche, Ralph, The Political Status of the Negro in the Age of FDR., edited, with an Introduction by Dewey W. Grantham.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/ralph_bunche.htm (552 words)

	UN Chronicle \| Ralph Johnson Bunche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ralph Bunche was present at the creation of the United Nations as a member of the United States State Department group that began the drafting of the UN Charter under the direction of Leo Pasvolsky.
		Bunche succeeded as Mediator and on the island of Rhodes negotiated armistice agreements between Israel and its four Arab neighbours, a feat that was widely regarded as impossible and for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
		Bunche brought to his work at the United Nations the vitality, integrity and spirit of a remarkable family, the intellect of a scholar, the analytical mind and the experience of a political scientist who had worked mostly in the field, and the passion for justice and freedom of a member of an oppressed minority.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue3/0303p25.asp (1598 words)

	MSN Encarta - Ralph Bunche
		Bunche served in the Office of Strategic Services from 1941 to 1944, during World War II, and joined the United States Department of State in 1944; in 1945 he became the first fl to head a departmental division in federal government, the Division of Dependent Area Affairs.
		An expert on trusteeship matters, Bunche participated in the writing of the UN Charter, and in 1946 he became director of the trusteeship division of the UN.
		Bunche won international recognition for his skill as a mediator, and he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize after negotiating the four armistice agreements that halted the 1948-1949 Arab-Israeli War.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551706/Ralph_Bunche.html (376 words)

	Ralph Johnson Bunche
		Bunche enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles and, after graduating summa cum laude in 1927, entered graduate school at Harvard University.
		Bunche expressed his commitment to racial integration and to economic improvement for workers during his years at Howard by participating in civil rights protests and in the establishment of the National Negro Congress in 1936.
		Bunche moved to the State Department in 1944, and, as the first African American to run a departmental division of the federal government, continued to work on Africa and on colonial issues.
	archive.blackvoices.com /research/encarta/tt_108.asp (737 words)

	Ralph Bunche \| Teacher's Guide \| Film Summary
		Bunche responds to the growing racism and deterioting economic situation of the 1930s by calling for equal civil and economic rights for the American Negro.
		Bunche plays a major role in diffusing the crisis, which has brought the world to the brink of a war between the great powers.
		Bunche is next seen in the Congo where he has been sent to offer economic and technical assistance to the newly independent nation.
	www.ralphbunche.com /education/teach_filmsum.html (1012 words)

	Ralph J. Bunche
		Ralph J. Bunche, was a Black diplomat and United Nations official.
		Bunche was born on August 7, 1904, in Detroit, and moved to Los Angeles after the death of his parents.
		Bunche joined the United Nations staff in 1946 and was appointed to the peace- keeping Palestine Commission.
	afgen.com /bunche.html (142 words)

	Dr. Ralph Bunche -- from Detroit to the world stage
		Bunche was trying to pave the way for UN troops to enter the breakaway province of Katanga during the Congo Republic's bloody civil war.
		Ralph Bunche rose from a humble neighborhood on the lower eastside of Detroit to the dizzying heights of international diplomacy at a time when fl Americans in many areas of the United States were forced to sit in the backs of buses.
		Ralph Bunche was in Detroit in 1972 for the unveiling of a historical placque marking the birthplace of her late husband on Detroit's lower east side.
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=89&category=people (1368 words)

	Ralph Bunche, UCLA Alumnus, Nobel Prize Winner [UCLA Spotlight] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ralph Bunche was a “pioneer Bruin.” His UCLA was on Vermont Avenue, when the acronym UCLA was only beginning to replace “SBUC”—Southern Branch, University of California.
		Bunche stepped in and spent the next six months helping to develop armistice agreements that were signed by Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
		During this academic year, the campus, the city and the world are celebrating the centenary of the birth of Ralph Bunche, born in 1904.
	www.ucla.edu /spotlight/archive/html_2003_2004/alum1003_bunche.html (660 words)

	Dr. Ralph Bunche Commemorated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From 1954 to 1971, Ralph Bunche served as a United Nations under-secretary general, the highest office ever held by an American in the international body.
		Bunche's contributions influenced the U.N.'s role in international affairs and are particularly important today, when the effectiveness and role of the U.N. is subject to much debate.
		Ralphe Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
	www.unagb.org /main.asp?urh=home.Upcoming_Events.Ralph_Bunche (575 words)

	Ralph Bunche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For Ralph Bunche, starting law school in New York elicited not only the usual jitters and excitement, but a degree of celebrity he had not previously known, despite his famous name.
		Bunche returned to England to pursue a master’s degree in the subject at the University of Essex.
		Bunche recognizes the myriad ways to approach the protection of human rights, he says, “The kind of work I was doing was legally based, and I realized that a law degree would be incredibly important.” His choice of law schools was clear.
	www.law.columbia.edu /law_school/communications/reports/winter2004/classof2006/rbunche (434 words)

	Ralph Bunche Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph Bunche Park is a small municipal public park in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of New York City, at the northwest corner of First Avenue and 42nd Street.
		It was named in 1979 for the late Ralph Bunche.
		The sculptor, Daniel Larue Johnson, was a personal friend of Bunche, and dedicated the sculpture to Bunche, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Bunche_Park (343 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -BUNCHE, RALPH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in Detroit, Michigan, Bunche and his sister were orphaned in 1915 and were reared by their grandmother in Los Angeles.
		Bunche helped draft the trusteeship provisions of the U.N. Charter and assisted in organizing the Division of Trusteeship at the United Nations, becoming its director in 1947.
		Bunche earned high praise from all quarters for his deft handling of the armistice negotiations that ended the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1949 and won him his Nobel Peace Prize.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_013200_buncheralph.htm (753 words)

	RALPH BUNCHE TOWERING 20TH CENTURY FIGURE, BLAZING IDEALIST, CHAMPION OF PEACE, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL AT HEADQUARTERS ...
		Ralph Bunche was present at the creation of the United Nations, as one of the co-authors of the Charter and a leading advocate of decolonization. He laid the foundation for United Nations peacekeeping. He was intimately involved in every one of the key questions which the United Nationsgrappled with in its first decades.
		This centenary is an opportunity to remember Bunche, and to carry his legacy and wisdom forward to new generations. It is also an occasion to contemplate what he might make of this dramatic moment in human affairs and in the history of the institution to which he dedicated so much of his life.
		Bunche was, to all outward appearances, a patient man, as befits a meticulous negotiator determined to exhaust every last opportunity to resolve differences through peaceful means. But inside him burned a blazing urgency and idealism about the many problems facing the human family, especially the oppressed and the dispossessed.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/sgsm8814.doc.htm (444 words)

	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dr. Ralph J. Bunche: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bunche received the Peace Prize for negotiating the peace agreement that ended the Arab-Israeli war of 1948; Dr. King won the Peace Prize for negotiating an "end" to the conflict between African Americans and Whites in Birmingham, Ala.
		Ralph Johnson Bunche was born in Detroit on August 7, 1903 (the year is often given as 1904, but Ralph Bunch was never certain of his birth date because he had no birth certificate1).
		Ralph Bunche completed his master's degree in political science at Harvard in July 1928 with such distinction that he was given a Thayer Fellowship for doctoral study at Harvard.
	www.black-collegian.com /african/converge2005-2nd.shtml (1988 words)

	Dr. Ralph J. Bunche biography
		Ralph Johnson Bunche was born on August 7, 1904 in Detroit, Michigan.
		Bunche's family was poor and his father moved from city to city looking for work.
		Bunche would later recall that, "My childhood days were poor days, but happy ones and filled with music." Ralph's mother died when he was thirteen years old, after which his maternal grandmother reared him.
	kyky.essortment.com /ralphbunchebio_rube.htm (731 words)

	WPJ Summer 2003 - Remembering Ralph Bunche by Finkelstein
		An African American, born a century ago in Detroit, Bunche was an early campaigner for civil rights and a principal collaborator with the eminent Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal in preparing the landmark study, The American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944).
		Among Ralph Bunche’s legacies are 14,000 feet of film he shot in Africa with a camera lent to him by Eslanda Robeson, Paul Robeson’s wife.
		Bunche recounted this episode in "The Psychology of Humanity: A Conversation with Ralph Bunche and Mary Harrington Hall," Psychology Today, April 1969, pp.
	www.worldpolicy.org /journal/articles/wpj03-3/finkelstein.html (1961 words)

	Ralph Bunche \| Early Influences
		Ralph Johnson Bunche was born in Detroit in 1903.
		Ralph's mother, Olive, accompanied the vocalists on the piano.
		Ralph did well in school, but liked to talk, a habit his teacher, Miss Emma Belle Sweet, tried to discourage by making him stand in a corner with his face to the wall or giving him a rap over the knuckles.
	www.pbs.org /ralphbunche/early.html (265 words)

	The Legacy of Ralph Bunche
		Bunche was chief of the African Section, Technical and Research Division, OSS, from 1942 to 1944, when he left to join the State Department and begin work on the U.N. Charter.
		Bunche had assisted Gunnar Myrdal on the massive and influential study on the status of fl Americans, and “was very proud of his involvement with the book,” said Mr.
		Their speeches are similar; and King considered Bunche his elder statesman, inviting him to participate in the 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march which drew Bunche back to ‘the Movement’ and back to political activism.” Mr.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0104/bunche_odyssey.html (1489 words)

	Library Launches Ralph Bunche Online Exhibit... 3/2/2004
		Bunche earned an athletic scholarship to attend UCLA, where he enrolled in 1923 at what was then known as the Southern Branch of the University of California.
		Bunche was in the U.N. Delegates' dining room in September 1950 when he learned that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in Palestine.
		Bunche's involvement with civil rights issues was a constant theme throughout his life, from episodes of discrimination he experienced personally to scholarly works he wrote on discriminatory practices to the support he lent to Martin Luther King Jr., and other activists.
	newsroom.ucla.edu /page.asp?RelNum=4983 (1200 words)

	:: Exhibitions and Artists - Ralph Bunche: Diplomat for Peace and Justice
		Ralph Bunche (left) with General Carlos Po Romulo of the Philippines in the Queens Museum of Art when the building functioned as the UN General Assembly, ca.
		Ralph Bunche: Diplomat for Peace and Justice presents the life and numerous contributions of this extraordinary man through documentary photographs, important writings and artifacts from both his personal and professional lives.
		Ralph Bunche: Diplomat for Peace and Justice features important works of art that address the issues to which Bunche dedicated his life.
	www.queensmuseum.org /exhibitions/bunche.htm (581 words)

	Ralph Bunche \| Educational Resources \| Instructor's Notes
		These Notes focus on the pioneering contributions made by Ralph Bunche to the foundation of modern-day fl politics as well as to the study of race and race relations in the disciplines of political science and sociology.
		They were prepared for instructors interested in using Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey to enhance their presentation in courses on the United Nations and international organizations.
		Some of the issues that preoccupied Ralph Bunche were racism, imperialism, colonialism, colonial administration, African culture, the League of Nations mandates systems and the UN Trusteeships System.
	www.ralphbunche.com /education/instruct_intro.html (1221 words)

	Ralph Bunche - Biography
		Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1904-1971) was born in Detroit, Michigan.
		His father, Fred Bunche, was a barber in a shop having a clientele of whites only; his mother, Olive (Johnson) Bunche, was an amateur musician; his grandmother, «Nana» Johnson, who lived with the family, had been born into slavery.
		When Bunche was ten years old, the family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the hope that the poor health of his parents would improve in the dry climate.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1950/bunche-bio.html (1468 words)

	Ralph Bunche (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ralph Bunche was instrumental — sometimes at great personal risk — in finding peaceful solutions to incendiary conflicts around the world, while at the same time he was never far from the realities of racial prejudice.
		Bunche rose from modest circumstances to become the foremost international mediator and peacekeeper of his time, winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize and key drafter of the United Nations charter.
		Drawing on Bunche's personal papers and on his many years as Bunche's colleague at the UN, Brian Urquhart's elegant biography delineates a man with a zest for life as well as unsurpassed integrity of purpose.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall98/ralphbunche.htm (244 words)

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