Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?

Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his nonviolent campaign against racial segregation and for civil rights in the United States. At age 35, he was the youngest recipient of the prize at that time.

King was a Baptist minister and a central leader of the American civil rights movement. He helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott, supported the 1963 March on Washington, and delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

In his Nobel lecture, King connected civil rights with the wider struggle against poverty, racial injustice, and war. He donated the prize money to the movement.

King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. Other frequently named civil rights figures, including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, won Nobel Peace Prizes in different years. King’s award specifically recognised nonviolent resistance during the US civil rights era.