This black American helped write the U.N. charter & went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize
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United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize | United Nations  The Peace Prize was to be awarded to the person who had done most for ... told UN staff he hoped that winning the prize "will urge us forward and encourage all of us ... route to global peace and cooperation goes by way of the United Nations. ... Bunche was the first African American and person of color to be so honored in...
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Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East ... - Nobelprize.org  Dec 9, 2006 ... Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Bunche "would thereby not only honour him ... Nevertheless, he wrote for the campus newspaper, was president of the ... Myrdal disagreed with the Marxist theory that black Americans could only ... Bunche went into the UN service the following year to work with the...
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Articles about Ralph Bunche Peace And Heritage Center - latimes  Bunche, who helped write the United Nations charter, became the first African American man to win the Nobel Peace Prize when he was recognized for drafting...
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Remembering Dr. Ralph Bunche: Activist, statesman, and Nobel ...  Aug 7, 2016 ... Dr. Ralph Bunche, the first black recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, ... In the preface to Ralph Bunche, The Man and His Times, Benjamin Rivlin wrote: ... He was the first African American to gain a PhD in political science from ... 1950 Nobel Peace Prize and key drafter of the United Nations charter.
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Ralph Bunche - Wikipedia  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 1940, Bunche contributed, as an investigative researcher and writer, to...
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African-American literature - Wikipedia  African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of ... During the American Civil Rights movement, authors such as Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about issues of racial segregation and black ..... Morrison is the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Martin Luther King's Nobel Speech Is an Often Ignored Masterpiece ...  Oct 16, 2014 ... When he accepted the prize, he delivered a speech that has been ... 10, 1964, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he knew the world was watching. ... face of the American civil rights movement, and that everything he said would .... speech includes the sentiment, I decline to accept the end of man.
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W. E. B. Du Bois - Wikipedia  William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively ... and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history,...
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Ralph Bunche - Wikipedia  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 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, for his work in resolving...
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W. E. B. Du Bois (18681963) - The Formative Years, Early ...  Experiencing many changes in the nation's political history, he served as a voice for ... He was the first African American to graduate as valedictorian from Great ... Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. .... in America (1935), Black Folk Then and Now (1939), Dusk of Dawn (1940), and Color...
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 - Presentation Speech - Nobelprize.org  Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn*, Chairman of the Nobel Committee on 10 ... Negroes obeyed this commandment in December, 1955, and won a victory. ... where Martin Luther King was installed as minister of a Baptist congregation in...
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The Nobel Peace Prizes as Teaching Tools - JStor  Marshall, the Dalai Lama of Tibet ... ing from Oslo. When I ... be given "to the person who shall ... that the Nobel prize was like ... was honored for her works of ..... Martin. Luther King, Jr. is the best known, but much is already published by and about him. I .... Agricultural scientist, "father of the Green Revolution," humanitarian.
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Organization of Afro-American Unity - Wikipedia  The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization founded by Malcolm X in 1964. ... He had written the group's charter with John Henrik Clarke, Albert Cleage, Jesse ... wrote the following into the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) Basic ... Jump up ^ Kihss, Peter (March 16, 1965).
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U.N. Chief Accepts Nobel Prize Awarded to Peacekeeping Troops ...  U.N. Chief Accepts Nobel Prize Awarded to Peacekeeping Troops. December 11, 1988|From Times Wire Services ... Javier Perez de Cuellar accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of U.N. peacekeeping troops Saturday and said their ... because the United States and other nations don't pay their dues to the world body.
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TR Center - Roosevelt is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize  Dec 10, 2010 ... Roosevelt is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On December 10, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize. Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work surrounding the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1901-2000 - Nobelprize.org  Mar 15, 2001 ... The prize for peace was to be awarded to the person who "shall have done ..... honored another Norwegian, Fridtjof Nansen, for his humanitarian work in ..... In 1964 American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. received the ... Lech Walesa in 1983, and to the 14th Dalai Lama in Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso,...
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First Black wins Nobel Prize in Literature | African American Registry  On this date in 1986, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Wole Soyinka. Soyinka is perhaps Africa's most versatile and eclectic intellectual--a...
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United Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize | United Nations  The Peace Prize was to be awarded to the person who had done most for "fraternity ... One agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) received the ... After being awarded the prize jointly with the world body, Secretary-General Kofi Annan in ... 1969 - The International Labor Organization (ILO).
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Nobel Peace Prize to UN and Secretary-General an 'honour and ...  Oct 12, 2001 ... Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who was today awarded the Nobel Peace ... Dag Hammarskjld, was awarded the prize posthumously in 1961,...
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Desmond Tutu - Wikipedia  Desmond Mpilo Tutu, CH (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and ... He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for .... of the American Harmony Child Foundation and the Hospice Palliative Care ..... Tutu also called on an end to expensive taxes on anti-AIDS drugs.
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Maya Angelou - BLACKSTAR EXODUS  The Good News At The Naacp Meeting Was Maya Angelou She Spoke And ... The Spingarn Medal is the African American Nobel Prize, indeed, perhaps ... Many won their medal because of their heroic accomplishments for African Americans. ... 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history...