Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate who has worked to expand environmental protection and prosecute companies endangering workers or consumers. He was successful in spurring the development of US government agencies but less effective in his presidential runs. Nader’s activism began in the 1960s, attacking General Motors for producing the unsafe Corvair. His activism led […]
Ralph Bunche was an African American political scientist and diplomat who mediated between Israelis and Palestinians in the 1940s, leading to an armistice agreement and the Nobel Peace Prize. He excelled academically, founded the National Negro Congress, and worked for the US government during WWII. He died in 1971, leaving a legacy of peace and […]
