TODAY IN HISTORY
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SEPT 1 1950 Ralph Bunche received Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s
Ralph Bunche received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s work as a United Nations mediator in the Palestine conflict. He called himself ‘an incurable optimist’. Bunche was the first African American and person of color to be so honored in the history of the prize.