President Obama's winning the Nobel Peace Prize today reminds us
that there is no historical marker to commemorate the only Detroit
native and first the African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bunche was born in Detroit and his family lived for a few year in
an apartment near the intersection of Porter and Junction. Does
anyone know which building was his residence before he moved
to Oklahoma and California? It is interesting to note that the
Nobel Prize committee cited President Obama for his outreach to
Islamic world while Bunche won his prize for helping to end the
first war between Isreal and their Islamic neighbors. It would
be nice to see an historic marker erected at Junction and Porter.
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