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Ralph Bunche FBI file

Title
Ralph Bunche FBI file, 1940-1963.
Author
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Box 1Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 594 Box 1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Box 2Mixed materialUse in library Sc MG 594 Box 2Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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.8 lin. ft. (2 boxes)
Summary
Copies of FBI documents related to Ralph Bunche obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The files include the text of his Nobel Peace Prize address, transcription of his statements to the FBI, and summaries of interviews with former colleagues at Howard University.
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Note
  • Complementary collection: Ralph Bunche papers, Sc MG 290
Source (note)
  • Marika Sherwood
Biography (note)
  • Born in 1904 to working class parents in Detroit, Ralph Bunche graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1927 and Harvard Graduate School in 1928. Bunche taught in the Department of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, D.C., worked with the Carnergie Corporation and the Department of State before joining the Permanent Secretariat of the United Nations in 1948. Investigations of Bunche's activities were conducted under the Hatch Act in 1940-42 and the Loyalty Act in 1953-54. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was associated with various organizations on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, among them the National Negro Congress which he co-founded, and was designated for custodial detention in the event of a national emergency by the FBI in 1941. He was cleared by the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board in 1954.
Call Number
Sc MG 594
OCLC
603596301
Author
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Title
Ralph Bunche FBI file, 1940-1963.
Biography
Born in 1904 to working class parents in Detroit, Ralph Bunche graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1927 and Harvard Graduate School in 1928. Bunche taught in the Department of Political Science at Howard University in Washington, D.C., worked with the Carnergie Corporation and the Department of State before joining the Permanent Secretariat of the United Nations in 1948. Investigations of Bunche's activities were conducted under the Hatch Act in 1940-42 and the Loyalty Act in 1953-54. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was associated with various organizations on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, among them the National Negro Congress which he co-founded, and was designated for custodial detention in the event of a national emergency by the FBI in 1941. He was cleared by the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board in 1954.
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Sc MG 594
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