Ralph Bunche
Diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904-1971) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 67
Ralph Johnson Bunche 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.
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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.
