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Nobel Peace Prize Winners - Biography.com  Explore Biography.com's collection of Nobel Peace Prize Winners. See our ... the prize has gone to many courageous individuals who have fought for peace and human rights around the world. ... Civil Rights Activist, Minister (19291968).
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List of civil rights leaders - Wikipedia  Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political ... Olympe de Gouges (17481793)  French women's rights pioneer, writer, ... Hull House and American Civil Liberties Union, Nobel Peace Prize winner .... minister and activist, SCLC's teacher of nonviolence in civil rights movement...
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King wins Nobel Peace Prize - Oct 14, 1964 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, King wins Nobel Peace Prize on Oct 14, 1964. ... African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace ... At 35 years of age, the Georgia-born minister was the youngest person ever to ... A powerful orator, he appealed to Christian and American ideals and won...
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We Shall Overcome -- The Players  The significant gains of the civil rights movement were won by people, not processes. ... These and other functions enhanced the importance of the minister. ... the black freedom struggle won him worldwide acclaim and the Nobel Peace Prize. ... pioneer of voting registration in the most rural--and most dangerous--part of the...
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The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century | The ...  Sep 15, 2010 ... Beck argues, for example, that the civil rights movement "has been perverted and ... Movement leaders make strategic choices that help win victories. ... suffrage, an antiwar crusader and winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. ..... As a popular minister for the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X preached a form of...
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia  Martin Luther King Jr was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using ... Born, Michael King Jr. ... Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington...
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All Nobel Peace Prizes - Nobelprize.org  Collage: Martin Luther King Jr., Lech Walesa, Henry Dunant, Mother Teresa. All Nobel Peace Prizes. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 97 times to 130 Nobel Laureates between ... "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents" ... The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)...
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Jesse Jackson - Journalist, Civil Rights Activist, Minister - Biography ...  Jul 8, 2014 ... Jesse Jackson is a civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. ... In 1965, he went to Selma, Alabama to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the .... He has continued to push for African-American rights and has been a ... a Master of Divinity degree from the Chicago Theological Seminary.
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Chief Albert John Luthuli | South African History Online  Aug 4, 2016 ... Chief Albert Luthuli, who became Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from December 1952 until his death in 1967. Luthuli was the most widely known and respected African leader of his era.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1901-2000 - Nobelprize.org  Mar 15, 2001 ... These are some of the most likely ones: Nobel, who lived most of his life .... of the International Peace Bureau, and Klas Pontus Arnoldson, founder of the .... what still made it controversial, also among committee members, was that ... Swedish Social Democratic leader Karl Hjalmar Branting had also done...
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Ralph Bunche - Wikipedia  Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. .... In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, for his work in resolving...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. | Biography & Facts | Britannica.com  Jan 29, 2016 ... Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the ... Click here to search ... His leadership was fundamental to that movement's success in ... as the massive March on Washington (1963), to achieve civil rights. .... B. Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
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Malcolm X - Civil Rights Activist, Minister - Biography.com  African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and '60s. ... Born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm X was a prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for ...
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Exclusive: Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights ...  Jan 19, 2015 ... Exclusive: Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, ... of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On December 7, 1964, days before he received the ... Days before he received that award in Oslo, Norway, Dr. King .... All of these forces conjoined to cause the Negro in America to take a .... That's a lot of money.
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About Dr. King | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent ...  During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s leadership of the modern ... He is the only non-president to have a national holiday dedicated in his honor, ... Luther King, Jr. became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. ... the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, which she...
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Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East ... - Nobelprize.org  Dec 9, 2006 ... In 1950 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the first non-white person, the African-American and United Nations (UN) official ... In the 1930s Bunche became a recognized authority on race...
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Desmond Tutu Biography (Activist/Clergyman) - Infoplease  Biography of Desmond Tutu, The bishop who won a Nobel prize for ... Science & Health Home  Astronomy & Space  Aviation  Environment & Energy  Health  Inventions  Life Science  Physical Science ... Desmond Tutu received the 1984 Nobel peace prize for his nonviolent work ... His middle name, Mpilo, means hope.
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Free Flashcards about NOBEL PRIZES - StudyStack  IN 1971 THIS WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR EASING EAST-WEST TENSIONS, WILLY BRANDT. IN 1975 THIS...
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Linus Pauling - Chemist, Scientist - Biography.com  Feb 28, 2016 ... Explore the life of often controversial two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, ... chemist who became the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes. ... He was awarded another Nobel in 1962, for peace, for his crusade to ... volunteering his services to the U.S. government during World War II.
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Still resonating in America: MLK's message of peace ... and sense ...  Jan 16, 2011 ... 10, 1964, in accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace: ... nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. ... compromised with the undemocratic practices of southern Dixiecrats...