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Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche

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Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche

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    1. Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche “Commemorating The Man, The Institution, The Great Example of Our Time” 2003 – 2004 The University of the West Indies (Mona)

    2. Ralph Bunche not long after his birth in Detroit.

    3. Ralph Bunche at 5 years old, 1910 in Detroit.

    4. Ralph Bunche Portrait, 1949

    5. The Bunche’s

    6. Dr. Ralph Bunche in 1959

    7. Mrs. Ralph Bunche was in Detroit in 1972 for the unveiling of a historical placque marking the birthplace of her late husband on Detroit's lower east side.

    8. Bunche's two daughters, Joan, left, and Jane, students at Westtown School in Westtown, Pa., in 1949.

    9. Despite his world status, Bunche and his family were not immune to racial bigotry. In 1959, Bunche and his son, Ralph Jr. were told by the president of New York's West Side Tennis Club that they could not join the club because it did not accept Negroes or Jews as members.

    10. Ralph Johnson Bunche

    11. Ralph Bunche and Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, act as jurors to select the most acceptable color for the first anthropologically correct black doll in New York in 1951.

    12. Bunche was an outstanding athlete at UCLA, playing basketball, football and baseball.

    13. Bunche, right, at a table with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson and Mrs. Rudolph Bing, wife of the Metropolitan Opera's general manager, at the opening of the Met's 79th season in 1963.

    14. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche in his UN office, 1956

    15. Dr. Ralph Bunche, left, and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold confer in Leopoldville, the Congo, in 1960. Bunche was trying to pave the way for UN troops to enter the breakaway province of Katanga during the Congo Republic's bloody civil war.

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