The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Awarded on: 1964-10-14
"for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population"
Martin Luther King Jr.
Born: 1929-01-15 in Atlanta, GA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American civil rights leader (1929–1968)
Biography
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.