The 1950 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ralph Bunche, of the United States, a Howard University political science professor, Director of the Division of Trusteeship at the United Nations and the Acting Mediator in Palestine. Bunche was an active and vocal supporter of the civil rights movement. He participated in the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and also in the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel. Since 1901 it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses” Over the next few months we’ll be introducing you to the past Nobel laureates, leading up to the award of the 2016 prize in October.
