Who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent civil rights leadership?

Martin Luther King Jr. won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent civil rights leadership.

King was recognized for leading the African American civil rights movement in the United States through nonviolent resistance. The Nobel Committee cited his campaign against racial segregation and discrimination and presented him with the prize in Oslo on 10 December 1964.

At age 35, King was the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate at that time. He donated the prize money to the civil rights movement. His leadership included the Montgomery bus boycott, the Birmingham campaign, and the 1963 March on Washington.

King’s Nobel recognition came before the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark federal law that strengthened voting protections for Black Americans. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on 4 April 1968.