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Dec 05, 2023
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Dec 05, 2023
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Alameda County
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Feb 01, 2011
History of the Ralph Bunche Neighborhood
"Who is Ralph Bunche? Ralph Bunche (1903 – 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, civil rights activist, and the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Bunche was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a barber and mother an amateur musician; both of his parents died within three months of each other when he was thirteen, and he and his sister moved to Los Angeles to live with their grandmother. A brilliant student, Bunche was the valedictorian of his high school as well as at his university class at UCLA. With a scholarship and money raised by his community in hand, Bunche attended Harvard University where he earned his PhD in political science; he was the first black American to do so in an American university. Ralph Bunche “championed the principle of equal rights for everyone, regardless of race or creed. He believed in “the essential goodness of all people, and that no problem in human relations is insoluble.” Bunche served as principal secretary to the United Nations Palestine Commission during the Arab-Israeli conflict, and was awarded the Peace Price in 1950 for negotiating the 1949 Armistice Agreements. He also was an activist during the civil rights movement, and walked in the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech."
History of the Ralph Bunche Neighborhood
"Who is Ralph Bunche? Ralph Bunche (1903 – 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, civil rights activist, and the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Bunche was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a barber and mother an amateur musician; both of his parents died within three months of each other when he was thirteen, and he and his sister moved to Los Angeles to live with their grandmother. A brilliant student, Bunche was the valedictorian of his high school as well as at his university class at UCLA. With a scholarship and money raised by his community in hand, Bunche attended Harvard University where he earned his PhD in political science; he was the first black American to do so in an American university. Ralph Bunche “championed the principle of equal rights for everyone, regardless of race or creed. He believed in “the essential goodness of all people, and that no problem in human relations is insoluble.” Bunche served as principal secretary to the United Nations Palestine Commission during the Arab-Israeli conflict, and was awarded the Peace Price in 1950 for negotiating the 1949 Armistice Agreements. He also was an activist during the civil rights movement, and walked in the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech."
Feb 01, 2011
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Dec 05, 2023
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Feb 01, 2011
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Ralph Bunche Neighborhood
