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Please copy the text in the edit box below and insert it manually by editing this page. Upon submitting the note will be published multi-licensed under the terms of the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license and of the GFDL, versions 1.2, 1.3, or any later version. See our terms of use for more details. Add a note Draw a rectangle onto the image above (press the left mouse button, then drag and release).

Save To modify annotations, your browser needs to have the XMLHttpRequest object. [[MediaWiki talk:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.js|Adding image note]]$1 [[MediaWiki talk:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.js|Changing image note]]$1 [[MediaWiki talk:Gadget-ImageAnnotator.js|Removing image note]]$1. Today in History. Ralph Bunche, May 16, 1951.

Today in History

Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten,1932-1964 U.S. diplomat Ralph Bunche, a key member of the United Nations (UN) for more than two decades, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his successful negotiation of a truce between Arabs and Jews in Palestine the previous year, died on December 9, 1971, in New York City. 1902 M, New York Skyline, 1902. Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Later, he collaborated with Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal on the monumental study of U.S. race relations published as An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944). During World War II, Bunche worked for the Office of Strategic Services and the State Department.

United Nations Headquarters in New York, 1952. In 1947, UN Secretary General Trygve Lie appointed Bunche as his personal representative to the UN Special Commission on Palestine. Search Library of Congress resources for more information on African Americans. Primary Source Analysis Tool. Maps of War. The First Thanksgiving. Children's Lives at Colonial London Town. How did children live in colonial America?

Children's Lives at Colonial London Town

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National Geographic Mapping

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