Martin Luther King?

Question

What key factors influenced the decision for Dr. Martin Luther King to recieve the Nobel Peace Prize? For what reasons did he recieve it for?

Answer 1

How old are you? Surely this has been covered in school. If you do not know what he did, my faith in the public school system dropped a few points just now.

Answer 2

These are some of the reasons:

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the ***** revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.


Everything he did, he did Peacefully........

Answer 3

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968), leader of "Southern Christian Leadership Conference," an organization formed to provide leadership for the civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the ***** revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

Answer 4

I think the biggest factor is the fact that Dr. King stressed non-violence in all his protests, in his organization of protests, and in his speeches.

In was a lot like Gandhi in his non-violent approach, and that caught the eye of the Nobel Committee, I believe.

Answer 5

The key factor was his persuasion of "change through peacful demostration." In all the marches King was involved with he and the demostraters never lashed back with the violence and force with which their were met. His speaches and sermons are regarded with the highest respect world wide, and the change that was made has changed opinons and attitudes of all races,

Answer 6

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think it is because he didn't advocate violence as a way to resolve racial issues. He wanted people to work together peacefully to resolve their problems.


That why I admire him.

Answer 7

He advocated nonviolent protest to change America's civil rights laws.

His "weapons" were his sense of morals and justice, and his religious faith.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King

Answer 8

He was a Humanitarian... without violence...