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Title: Their paths converge; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dr. Ralph J. Bunche: Nobel Peace Prize winners.(AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY)
Publication: The Black Collegian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2005
Publisher: iMinorities, Inc.
Volume: 35Issue: 2Page: 85(4)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color 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 received the Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy. Bunche was born in Detroit, Michigan to an African American family. His father was a barber, while his mother was an amateur musician. His father had ancestors who were free before the American Revolution. When he was a child, the family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to improve his parents' health. His parents died soon after, and he was raised in Los Angeles by his grandmother. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Global Governance, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8272 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Ralph Bunche centennial: peace operations then and now.
Author: James Cockayne
Publication: Global Governance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 11Issue: 3Page: 331(20)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ralph Bunche High School was a school constructed in 1949 as a result of Civil Action 631 to provide "separate but equal" education for African-American students in King George County, Virginia. The school operated until 1968 when King George High School was completed and the county's schools integrated. The school was named for Ralph Bunche, an African-American educator, diplomat and Nobel Prize winner. The building continued to be used for various school uses until 1998, including at times as an elementary school, for several specialized programs, including secondary and pre-school, and for School Board administrative offices and some School Board meetings. Ralphe Bunche High School alumni formed a preservation committee in 1998 after plans to demolish the building were discussed. In August of that year, the King George County School Board approved a resolution to preserve the building allowing it to be registered as a historical site. In May, 2007 the Ralph Bunche Alumni Association unveiled a commemorative plaque to be placed on the building. ... Read more

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Chapters: Zora Neale Hurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, Thomas Sowell, Hubert Harrison, Cornel West, Ralph Bunche, William Cooper Nell, Walter E. Williams, Sarah Parker Remond, Shelby Steele, William Julius Wilson, John Ogbu, Molefi Kete Asante, Herman H. Long, Mary Frances Berry, Michael Eric Dyson, Glenn Loury, Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Johnnetta B. Cole, Martin David Jenkins, Julianne Malveaux, John Mcwhorter, Charles Lenox Remond, Asa Grant Hilliard Iii, Niara Sudarkasa, Ron Walters, Monroe Work, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Manning Marable, St. Clair Drake, Lewis Wade Jones, Harry Edwards, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Elmer P. Martin Jr., Wyatt F. Jeltz, Beverly Grier. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 215. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced ; February 23, 1868 August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity." The first African-American graduate of Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D in History, Du Bois later became a professor of history and economics at Atlanta University. He became the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910, becoming founder and editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. Du Bois rose to national attention in his opposition of Booker T. Washington's ideas of social integration between whites and blacks, c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=89988 ... Read more

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Chapters: Eric Williams, Percy Lavon Julian, Emory Tolbert, Roscoe Bartlett, Ralph Bunche, Frank H. Wu, Ernest Everett Just, Kurt Schmoke, Prabhakar Misra, Ibrahim Gambari, S.o.y Keita, David Levering Lewis, Stephen Baskerville, Abelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, Sterling Allen Brown, Amiya Chakravarty, Lois Mailou Jones, Marion Mann, William H. Hastie, Tony Brown, Walter Broadnax, Merze Tate, Ron Walters, William Spriggs, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee, H. Naylor Fitzhugh, Reuben D. Mussey, Jr., O. R. Dathorne, Thomas C. Holt, Richard Theodore Greener, Sterling Nelson Brown, Russell L Adams, St. Elmo Brady, Marguerite Ross Barnett, Ruth Ella Moore, Ibrahim K. Sundiata, Allison Blakely, Sulayman S. Nyang, Michael Bunn, Baraket Selassie, Benjamin Griffith Brawley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 182. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 April 19, 1975) was an African American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine; and was an African American pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones, steroids, progesterone, and testosterone, from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work would lay the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills. He later started his own company to synthesize steroid intermediates from the Mexican wild yam. His work helped reduce the cost of steroid intermediates to large multinational pharmaceutical companies. During his lifetime he received more than 130 chemical patents. Julian was one of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry. He was the first Afr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=430881 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1463 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 538 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a comprehensive overview of the Great Depression, this wide-ranging, multidisciplinary encyclopedia features entries on Depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society, and culture. ... Read more