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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Detroit, Michigan
  • PLACE OF DEATH: New York City, New York
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Ralph Bunche was a U.S. diplomat, a key member of the United Nations for more than two decades, and the winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Peace.

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Born on August 7, 1904, in Detroit, Michigan, Ralph Bunche served in the US War Department, the Office of Strategic Services, and the State Department during WWII. He also negotiated an armistice between Palestinians and Jews, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. He worked on atomic energy issues and in the Congo with the UN and set up a department of political science at Howard University.

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