{"id":41785,"date":"2017-08-07T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41785"},"modified":"2017-08-07T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:31:28","slug":"happy-birthday-2-ya-ralph-bunche-first-african-american-nobel-peace-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=41785","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday 2 Ya \u201cRalph Bunche\u201d First African American Nobel Peace Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=41786\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41786\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ralph-bunche-9231128-1-402-560x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ralph-bunche-9231128-1-402-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ralph-bunche-9231128-1-402-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ralph-bunche-9231128-1-402-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ralph-bunche-9231128-1-402.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ralph Bunche<\/b>, born<b>\u00a0<\/b>August 7, 1903 or 1904,\u00a0was a\u00a0political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950\u00a0Nobel Peace Prize\u00a0for his late 1940s mediation in\u00a0Israel. He was the first\u00a0African American\u00a0to be so honored in the history of the prize.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-pbs_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>He was involved in the formation and administration of the\u00a0United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the\u00a0Presidential Medal of Freedom\u00a0by President\u00a0John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>One of Bunche&#8217;s major achievements was his efforts from 1947 to 1949 to bring peace to the region of Palestine, the site of major conflict between Arab and Israeli forces. After his supervisor was killed in a terrorist attack, Bunche was called upon to helm the talks on the island of Rhodes. The long negotiation process was defined by the diplomat&#8217;s willingness to meet with both sides and be meticulous, calm and patient about getting parties to sit with each other and get used to signing off on smaller matters.<\/p>\n<p>The Armistice Agreements were signed in 1949. Bunche won the Nobel Peace Prize the following year, becoming the first African American and person of color in the world to receive the award.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the 1950s he had become U.N. under-secretary-general for special political affairs and had overseen the dispatch of thousands of non-fighting, neutral troops in the 1956 Suez conflict. Bunche cited this effort as &#8220;the single most satisfying work&#8221; he&#8217;d ever done, as military forces were being used to maintain peace and not aid war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Bunche, born\u00a0August 7, 1903 or 1904,\u00a0was a\u00a0political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950\u00a0Nobel Peace Prize\u00a0for his late 1940s mediation in\u00a0Israel. He was the first\u00a0African American\u00a0to be so honored in the history of the prize.\u00a0He was involved in the formation and administration of the\u00a0United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the\u00a0Presidential Medal of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[7550,7547,7549,7548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41787,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41785\/revisions\/41787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}