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14 OCT 1964 MLK IS AWARDED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

October 14, 2019 By Roland Lundberg

MARTIN LUTHER KING RECEIVES THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE - 1964

On the morning of 14 October 1964, Martin Luther King, sleeping in an Atlanta hospital room after checking in for a rest, was awakened by a phone call from his wife, Coretta Scott King, telling him that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Presenting the award to King in Oslo, Norway, in December, the chairman of the Nobel Committee praised him for being “the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence. He is the first to make the message of brotherly love a reality in the course of his struggle, and he has brought this message to all men, to all nations and races.”

 

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