first african american to win a nobel peace prize
List of black Nobel laureates Blacks have received awards in three of six award categories: eleven in Peace, three in Literature, and one in Economics. The first black recipient, American Ralph Bunche, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1950. The most recent as of 2017, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, were awarded their Peace Prizes in 2011.
Ivan Van Sertima Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 â€“ 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.[1]