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Bunche (Ralph J.) Papers

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About this Collection

Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, articles, publications, and photographs related to the life and career of Ralph J. Bunche. Includes materials related to his teaching and research, his affiliations with various organizations and conferences, and his participation in The Negro in America project spearheaded by Gunnar Myrdal. Includes materials on Africa: photographs, field notes, US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) reports, and Institute of Pacific Relations documents. Also materials related to Bunche\'92s involvement with the United Nations , including UN records and materials dealing with his appointment as undersecretary of the UN in 1954. There are two boxes of materials on Bunche\'92s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, and material from Joan Bunche and Brian Urquhart\'92s notes from the biography he wrote, Ralph Bunche : an American life.


Collection Overview

Alternative title
Ralph J. Bunche Papers. Collection 2051
Date Created
1927-1971

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier
Collection 2051
ARK
ark:/21198/zz0009gvc3
Opac url
https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma997095173606533
Finding Aid URL
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8r29p24k
MANIFEST URL
IIIF Manifest

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Rights contact
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988

Notes

Description
Bunche was born in Detroit, MI, on Aug. 7, 1904; AB, UCLA, 1927; AM, 1928, and Ph.D, 1934, Harvard Univ.; professor at Howard Univ. from 1929-1950, and at Harvard, 1950-1952; in 1948 joined Permanent Secretariat of UN; undersecretary for special political affairs, UN, 1958-67; became undersecretary general in 1968; awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1950; died in NY, on Dec. 9, 1971.

Keywords

Subjects
Statesmen--United States--Archival resources
Civil rights workers--United States--Archival resources
Names
Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898- --American dilemma
United Nations--Officials and employees, American--Archival resources
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971--Archives

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