{"value"=>"<p>FAMILY PAPERS (1922-1988) comprise personal papers of Ralph and Ruth Harris Bunche. The <span class=\"emph\">Ralph Bunche</span>subseries includes educational, medical and financial papers, passports, personal and family documents. The <span class=\"emph\">Ruth Harris Bunche</span>subseries consists of general and professional correspondence, speeches and miscellaneous writings, certificates and awards, scrapbooks and printed matter. The correspondence reflects her contributions to various benefits, charities and social activities, sponsored in many cases by wives of influential men such as David Rockefeller, Walter White, Vladimir Horowitz, Count Bernadotte and Roy Wilkins. Other noted correspondents include Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Eubie Blake, Marian Anderson, Edward Koch, Irving Berlin, Jeane Kirkpatrick and George Bush. Mrs. Bunche served as a New York State delegate to the White House Conference on Education in 1955. She participated, along with her husband, in the March on Washington in 1963.</p>"}