Photocopy of typescript diary of a visit to South Africa by Ralph Johnson Bunche, 1 October - 31 December 1937, recording the impressions of an African American on South Africa; subjects include race relations; black living conditions in the reserves, mines and townships; black political and labour leaders and organisations, education, health care and the legal system. There is an account of the Silver Anniversary meeting of the African National Congress in Bloemfontein in December 1937.
BUNCHE, Ralph Johnson (1904-1971)
This material is held atInstitute of Commonwealth Studies Library, University of London
- Reference
- GB 101 ICS 136
- Dates of Creation
- 1937
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 volume
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Ralph Johnson Bunche b 1904; educated at University of California, Los Angeles (AB), Harvard University (AM, PhD); Chairman, Dept of Political Science, Howard University, Washington DC, 1928-1950; Director, Trusteeship Department, Unted Nations, 1946-1954; acting UN Mediator on Palestine, 1948-1949; awarded Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the Middle East, 1950; Professor of Government, Harvard, 1950-1952; UN Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs, 1954-1967; UN Special Representative in the Congo, 1960; UN Under Secretary-General, 1968-1971.
Arrangement
Single item
Access Information
Open although advance notice should be given.
Acquisition Information
Deposited by Dr Robert Edgar, via Baruch Hirson, 1986
Other Finding Aids
None
Archivist's Note
Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
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Location of Originals
Not known
Bibliography
The diary has been published as An African American in South Africa: the travel notes of Ralph J Bunche, 28 September 1937 - 1 January 1938 edited by Robert Edgar (Ohio University Press, 1992).