Who Are the 8 African and African-American Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize?Ralph Bunche, 1950Albert John Lutul, 1960Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964Desmond Mpilo Tutu, shared with F.W. de Klerk, 1984Nelson Mandela, 1993Kofi Annan, shared with the UN, 2001Wangari Muta Maatha, 2004Barack Obama, 2009Read more at Suite101: Obama Third US Black Nobel Peace Prize Winner: At-a-Glance Facts: Nobel Peace Award and African-Americans, Africanshttp://www.suite101.com/content/obama-second-us-black-nobel-peace-prize-winner-a157232#ixzz1AvdR6Wmr
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Desmond Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize for peace. Toni Morrison won a Nobel Peace Price for literature.
I think it was Martin Luther KingThe first black person to receive the Nobel Peace prize was Ralph J. Bunche, who received it in 1950 for mediating the Arab-Israeli truce. Martin Luther King Junior was the second black to receive the award, which he was given in 1964 for his work in the Civil Rights Movement.
I think it was Rosa Parks.
Lord John-Boyd Orr of Brechin-----------------Added; As noted in the above answer - the winner of the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize was a Caucasian and a British subject.
Ralph J. Bunche in 1950
Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela
Ralph Bunche (1903-1971) was the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950. In 1949, Bunche successfully negotiated a truce to the Arab-Israeli conflict. For his work as a mediator for a peaceful resolution, Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Bunche gave the Nobel lecture in Oslo, Norway, in which he said, "If today we speak of peace, we also speak of the united Nations, for in this year, peace and the United Nations have become inseparable...who could be so unseeing as not to realize that in modern war, victory is illusory; that the harvest of war can be only misery, destruction, and degradation?"
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, did not win the Nobel Peace Prize for his invention. The Nobel Peace Prize was established after his death in his will, to be awarded to individuals or organizations that promote peace and global cooperation.
Four including Barack Obama.Ralph Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for a series of armistice agreements he mediated between Israel and ( Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria).Dr. Martin Luther King won the Peace Prize in 1963 for negotiating an end to the conflict between African Americans and Whites in Birmingham, Alabama.President Barac Obama won the Nobel Prize in 2009 for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.Toni Morrison, became the first African American woman to win the nobel prize, In 1993, when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also the first black woman to win the nobel prize, Followed by Wangari maathai of Nigeria, who won the Nobel peace prize in 2004.
he became president he was fair to black and white people and he won a nobel peace prize in 2002
Was, he was assasinated in l968. The Rev Dr. King was active in N.A.A.C.P., Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Poor Peoples March, and doubtless others. He was the second Black man to be awarded the Nobel Peace prize, the first being diplomat Ralph Bunche. President Obama is the most recent Black Peace Prize winner. There have been only Three Black Peace Nobelists.