\"Nobel Peace Prize\" Ralph Bunche Signed Newspaper Ad For Sale

Up for sale a RARE VINTAGE! "Nobel Peace Prize" Ralph Bunche Hand Signed Newspaper Ad. 

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Ralph Johnson Bunche (/bʌntʃ/;

August 7, 1904  – December 9, 1971) 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. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United

Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential

Medal of Freedom by President John

F. Kennedy. For more than two decades (1928–1950),

Bunche served as chair of the Department of Political Science at Howard

University, where he also taught generations of

students. He served as a member of the Board of Overseers of his alma

mater, Harvard University (1960–1965), as a member of the board of the

Institute of International Education, and as a trustee of Oberlin

College, Lincoln University, and New Lincoln School.In August 2008, the United States National Archives and

Records Administration made public the fact that

Bunche had joined the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – the precursor organization to the Central

Intelligence Agency – during World War II.