DUBOIS BUNCHE
CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
HISTORICAL ICONS
The Dubois Bunche Center for Public Policy is honored to be named after two of the most respected
scholar activist of the 20th century.
William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1869. He completed his undergraduate education at Fisk University; and received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Harvard Uniersity in 1896, he received his PH.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University, with a doctorial dissertation entitled, "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United Sttes of America, 1638-1870," He also did post-doctorial studies at the University of Berlin.
DuBois served on the faculties of Wiberforce University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he researched The Philadelphia Negro, America's first sociological study of an urban Black Community, W.E.B. DuBois was a founder of the Niagara Movement, the N.A.A.C.P. and editor of its Crisis magazine. He was also a founder of the Pan African Congress, which birthed African Nations' independence from European colonialism. W.E.B. DuBois, one of the world's great scholors, intellectuals and international activists, died in Accra, Ghana on August 27, 1963, on the eve of the March on Washington.
William Edward Burghardt DuBois
Ralph Johnson Bunche
Ralph Johnson Bunche was born of humble orgins in Detroit, Michigan in 1904. Hhe graduated summa cum laude and was class valedictorian at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Master's degree in Political Science; and his Ph.D. in Government and International Relations from Harvard University. Bunche founded the Political Science Department at Howard University; produced several scholarly works on urban Black America, politics, race and international relations.
Ralph Bunche headed the African Section of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He was one of America's key strategists in the formation of the United Nations; was the first African-American to receive the Novel Peace Prize in 1950 for the Arab-Israeli settlement; was a major architect of the decolonialization of Africa; and was a behind-the-scenes supporter of the American Civil Rights Movement. The great international statesman and scholar served as Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the United Nations until his death in 1971.
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