Ralph Bunche papers : additions, 1937-1971.

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Ralph Bunche papers : additions, 1937-1971.

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Ralph Bunche's private papers kept in his office at the United Nations. The collection consists of conference notes and research materials from his field trip to South Africa in 1937; a complete set of his seven volume research memorandum "Political Status of the Negro" prepared for the Carnegie-Myrdal study "The Negro in America;" correspondence, writings and other papers documenting his World War II service as a senior research analyst in the Office of the Coordinator of Information at the Library of Congress Annex and in the Office of Strategic Services; working documents and printed matter of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, especially relating to the partition of Palestine in 1947; public and private correspondence, and organizational files from 1967 until his death in 1971. Also included are personal papers, biographical materials and newspaper clipping files on Bunche; articles, interviews and speeches authored by Bunche in the late 1960s, and a compilation of his statements (1955-1971); and miscellaneous files on Martin Luther King, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the Nobel Peace Prize and the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Congo.

37 lin.ft. (31 cartons, 1 box)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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