Family home of Ralph Bunche, Los Angeles, 1919-1927
Item Overview
- Title
- Family home of Ralph Bunche, Los Angeles, 1919-1927
- Alternative title
- Ralph Bunche and family
- Date Created
- [1919-1927]
- Date
- 1919/1927
- Collection
-
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
-
House where Ralph Bunche lived with his grandmother, Lucy Johnson, and sister, Grace Bunche, at 1221 East 37th Street (later changed to 1221 East 41st Street).
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy. [Wikipedia]
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
Keywords
- Genre
- photographs
- Names
- Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971
- Subject Geographic
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.009335
- Latitude
- -118.25383
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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African American political scientists
African American diplomats
Nobel prize winners