An American Dilemma
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The foundation
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Ralph Bunche
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Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is the first black Nobel lau
An American Dilemma
…as obstacles to full participation in American society that Black Americans faced as of the 1940s. American political scientist, diplomat, and author, Ralph Bunche—who was the first African American to receive a Nobel Prize—served as Gunnar Myrdal's main researcher and writer at the start of the project in the…
Bunche in 1955
Bunche in the Jefferson High School yearbook, 1922
A declassified photograph of Bunche (top right) and members of his staff during World War II. He was the head of the Africa Research Section of the Office of Strategic Services.
Bunche with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 12 December 1948