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Ralph Johnson Bunche, American political scientist, scholar, Nobel Prize winner, and diplomat.   Bunche was born on August 7, 1904 in Detroit, Michigan. His father Fred was a barber who owned a racially segregated barber shop that catered solely to white customers. His mother, Olive Agnes Johnson, was an amateur musician. Young Ralph spent his early years in Michigan. However, due to the relatively poor health of his mother, the family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico when he was ten years old. The family believed the dry climate of the region would be more conducive to his  mother's ’ health. Upon his mother's death, Ralph and his two sisters were resettled in Los Angeles, California where they joined their grandmother who raised them in a South Central neighborhood that was then predominantly white. It was during his teenage years in Los Angeles where Bunche proved to be a brilliant student. He excelled in all of his high school courses and graduated ...

Although little remembered today, Leidesdorff was a social, economic and political force in pre-gold rush San Francisco, with a number of “firsts” credited to his name. When he was named the U.S. Vice Consul to Mexico in 1845, he became the nation’s first African American diplomat.   He was elected to San Francisco’s first city council and its first school board in 1847.  He built the first hotel, the first shipping warehouse, he operated the first steamboat on San Francisco Bay, and he laid out the first horse race track in California. Born on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies in 1810, William was the son of Danish sugar planter Alexander Leidesdorff and Anna Marie Sparks, a light-skinned woman of mixed race ancestry.  In 1841 Leidesdorff sailed his 106-ton schooner  Julia Ann  around Cape Horn to California and settled in the Mexican village of Yerba Buena on San Francisco Bay.  Over the next three years he became a succes...