Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner in 1905. Of the 111 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 19 have been women. [6] The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work. [6]
Statement made upon his arrival from Birmingham, AL after being released from jail. King announces that he was invited along with three other Nobel Peace Prize winners to participate in talks in the Soviet Union about ending the war in Vietnam. [127] November 11 Address to the National Leadership Assembly for Peace Chicago, IL
The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population." [1] [2] He is the twelfth American recipient of the prestigious Peace Prize. [3]
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. The leader of the U.S. civil rights movement was "the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a ...
As of October 2023, the Peace Prize has been awarded to 111 individuals and 27 organizations; 19 women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than for any other Nobel Prize. Only two recipients have won multiple Prizes: the International Committee of the Red Cross has won three times (1917, 1944, and 1963) and the Office of the United Nations ...
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS (ICAN), WINNER OF 2017 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, ON X "The Hibakusha, the inspirational survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have worked tirelessly to ...
Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 1952, [78] accepting the prize with the speech, "The Problem of Peace". [79] With the $33,000 prize money, he started the leprosarium at Lambaréné. [14] From 1952 until his death he worked against nuclear tests and nuclear weapons with Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn and Bertrand Russell. In 1957 and ...
While it is unclear exactly why she denied the prize, Elizabeth famously said in a speech at 21-years-old: "I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted ...