On This Day In Alabama History: Martin Luther King Won Nobel Peace Prize
By Graydon Rust
Alabama 200
October 14, 1964
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in the modern civil rights movement. At the age of 35, King became the youngest person to receive the award. During the award presentation on Dec. 10, 1964, Chairman Gunnar Jahn of the Norwegian Nobel Committee described King as “the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence.” King accepted the award on behalf of the entire movement and advocated for the continued use of nonviolent resistance in the struggle for racial equality in the United States.
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