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Nobel Peace Prize/Martin Luther King Jr. Paper

The Nobel peace prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, it was created in 1901. The winners are selected by fields like physics, chemistry,

physiology or medicine, literature and for peace ("TheNobelPrizes" // ). // Martin Luther King Jr. was born on the 15th of January of 1929. He died on the 4th of April of 1968. He was assassinated while

standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Prize on the11th of December of 1964. Martin Luther King Jr. didn't have

to share his Nobel Peace Prize. The field Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Prize was on human rights in 1964 ("Martin Luther King - Biography" // ) //. He was the youngest man to receive the Nobel

Peace Prize. He received the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 35. Martin Luther King Jr. Organized peaceful demonstrations and boycotted across thesegregated south. He was known as a civil

rights activist. He fought for peace, but more importantly for human rights. He should be an inspiration to us, for example he went against the laws that were obviously incorrect, he stood up for what

was right, he wasn't afraid of what people thought, he wasn’t afraid of the consequences, and most importantly he was totally determined on what he wanted to accomplish and fulfill. Martin Luther

King Jr. graduated at the age of 15 of Morehouse College, a sophisticated college his father and grandfather graduated from as well. He was awarded the B.D. in 1951. Martin Luther King Jr. enrolled

in accommodate studies at Boston University. In 1953, he completed his residence for the doctorate. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955 received his degree. Martin Luther King Jr. in Boston he met and

married Corretta Scott. He and Corretta had two daughters and two sons. Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954. Martin Luther

King Jr. was a member of the executive committee of the leading organization of his kind in the nation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The boycott that lasted 382

days gave fruit on December the 21st of 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws involving segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the

buses as equals. During the days that he was boycotting he had gotten arrested and also his house had got bombed ("Martin Luther King - Biography" // ) //. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for over

twenty times and assaulted at least four times ("Martin Luther King - Biography). In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr, organized the Million Man March on Washington, DC where he delivered the " I Have

A Dream " speech. Martin Luther King Jr. was the "Man of the Year" on the "Time Magazine" in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr.'s role was to be the Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference ("Martin Luther King - Biography" // ) //. Martin Luther King Jr.'s gave his Nobel Lecture in the auditorium of the University of Oslo, Norway on December the 11 of 1964 was 2 minutes long

("Martin Luther King - Biography" // ). //

Works Cited:

"Martin Luther King - Biography." //Nobelprize.org//. Web. 13 Feb. 2012.

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"The Nobel Prizes." //Nobelprize.org//. Web. 13 Feb. 2012.

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