While active in the '60s civil rights movement, an aging
Bunche found himself little valued by younger generations, To them, he seemed the "ultimate model Negro," a bureaucrat entrenched in the Establishment "system" they rejected.
"The media for reaching the Negro masses, other than through the church, which is rather rigidly controlled by mainly conservative and selfish ministers, are not well refined,"
Bunche wrote, laying a preliminary blueprint about modern day church activism.
When the news came that
Bunche had won the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize, he considered declining it because, in his opinion, representatives of the UN ought not to be rewarded with prizes for their work for peace.
'A narrow escape''The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world' -- Ralph
Bunche. On May 14, 1948, the last British ship sailed from Palestine.
Bunche Center for African American Studies (JPAS editor Itibari M.
Hunt, director of the
Bunche Center and a sociology professor at UCLA.
For Arthur Ashe and ALEX HALEY and Chuck Berry and RALPH
BUNCHE and George Washington Carver and KENNETH CHENAULT and Countee Cullen and PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR and John Hope and JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN and Percy Julian and B.B.
In September, Kounalakis spoke at the Ralph
Bunche Library as part of her outreach in her new work as a "virtual fellow" in the Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).