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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 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]
King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and he posthumously was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, nine years after his assassination in 1968. For his promotion of nonviolence and racial equality, King is considered a peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world.
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 ...
Protests against World War I at the 1915 Women's Peace Conference in The Hague. The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
The Nobel Committee's decision to award him the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign for civil rights in South Africa was important because it showed that the committee had joined the ...
The Nobel Prize. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 965 individuals and 27 organizations as of 2023. [1] The United States has the highest number of Nobel laureates in the world, with over 420 Nobel laureates. [2] Around 71% of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans; around 29% of them are immigrants from other ...
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 ...