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"The Centennial Address delivered by Nobel laureate Dr. Martin Luther King at Carnegie Hall in New York City, February 23, 1968. The occasion was the International Cultural Evening sponsored by Freedomways magazine on the 100th birthday of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois and launching an "International Year".
— Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize 1964 acceptance speech. Martin Luther King Jr Quotes. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends ...
Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize (Archived 23 October 2023 at archive.today) Works by Elie Wiesel at Open Library; Appearances on C-SPAN; Biography on The Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity; Elie Wiesel on Nobelprize.org
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]
Born in 1928, Wiesel wrote extensively of his imprisonment in Nazi camps and in 1986 won the Nobel Prize for peace.
More than 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was honored by the Nobel Committee for his nonviolent campaign against racism in the United States. "I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham ...
Elie Wiesel: 30 September 1928 in Sighetu Marmației, Maramureș, Romania 2 July 2016 in Manhattan, New York, United States 1970 "for being a messenger of peace and brotherhood, fighting in for the cause of human rights and building bridges between generations through his literary works." [26] Jean Halpérin et al. [x] (1921–2012) France: 1971
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [4] [5] [6] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [7] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [6] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [8]