Ralph Bunche is the first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  When he brokers the 1949 Israeli-Arab armistice, New York City throws him a ticker tape parade up Broadway.  His diplomatic skills—sublime masterworks of applied psychology—are legendary at the United Nations.  He goes on to direct peacekeeping efforts in the Suez in 1956, the Congo in 1960, and Cyprus in 1964!  An early campaigner for civil rights, he publishes essays and gives talks throughout the U.S. Active in the NAACP, he marches alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Read more about it!

The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.

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