Title created by cataloger. Rolland Joseph 'Speedy' Curtis was born in Louisiana in 1922. After serving three years in the Marines during World War II, he and his wife, Gloria, relocated from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1946. Curtis served four years with the Los Angeles Police Department, but resigned from the force in order to pursue both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from USC. He later became involved in city politics, as an associate of Sam Yorty, and later a field deputy to City Council members Billy Mills and Tom Bradley. He was briefly director of the Model Cities program in 1973. Rolland J. Curtis died in his home in 1979, the victim of a homicide. An affordable housing complex on Exposition Blvd. near Vermont Ave. was named in his honor in 1981, along with a nearby street and park.; Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and the first black Nobel laureate and the first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He was a brilliant student, a debater, an athlete, and the class valedictorian at Thomas Jefferson High School's graduation of 1922. Throughout his life, Ralph Bunche had a plethora of achievements, among them are the following: (1927) graduates summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA, is class valedictorian, earning a BA degree; (1928) earns an MA degree in political science from Harvard University; (1928) appointed instructor at Howard University, in the Department of Political Science; (1932) awarded fellowship to do field research in West Africa for his doctoral dissertation on colonialism; (1934) earns a PhD in political science from Harvard, making him the first African American to gain a PhD in political science from an American university; (1936-1938) studied anthropology and conducted postdoctoral research at Northwestern University and at the London School of Economics, and later at the University of Cape Town in South Africa; (1941–43) During World War II, served in the U.S. War Department, the Office of Strategic Services, and the State Department; (1949) negotiates armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt and 3 other Arab states; (1950) awarded Nobel Peace Prize; (1950) first Black member to be inducted into the American Philosophical Society since its founding in 1743; (1963) receives the Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon B. Johnson; (1963) participates in Martin Luther King's March on Washington; (1965) participates in Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March; and served as a board member for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for 22 years, just to name a few. In 1971, Ralph Bunche resigned from his position at the UN due to ill health, and sadly, he died on December 9th of that same year from complications of heart disease, kidney disease, and diabetes. He was 67. Nobel Prize for Peace winner Ralph Bunche (left) is pictured shaking hands with an unidentified woman at an unknown event. City councilman Gilbert Lindsay (far right), is partially visible in the foreground with his arm extended. The numerous women and children smiling in the background are unidentified. No further information has been given. Photograph circa 1960. See images 00128594; 00128596 and 00128597 for additional photos in this series.
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Bunche, Ralph J.--(Ralph Johnson),--1904-1971 Lindsay, Gilbert African American men Men African American women Women African American teenagers Teenagers African American politicians Politicians African American civic leaders Civic leaders City council members Nobel Prize winners Handshaking Posing Smiling Los Angeles (Calif.)
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