Seeking justice and harmony among races and nations was Ralph Bunche’s passion in life. The son of a barber, he was born 100 years ago last August in Detroit. “My childhood days were poor days,” Bunche later wrote, but he remembered fondly “hitching my sled in winter onto the tailgates of horse drawn beer trucks; swimming on Belle Isle in the summer . . . [and] rooting for the Tigers …” When he was 10 years old, the family moved to New Mexico. When his parents died two years later, he moved with his grandmother to Los Angeles, where he graduated first in his class both in high school and in college at UCLA.
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