On this day, October 14, in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy and leadership in using nonviolent civil disobedience to protest racial segregation in America. At 35, King was the youngest person to have been honored with the award to that date.
The prize money, amounting to $54,000, was re-distributed in its entirety to the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, the National Council of Negro Women, the National Urban League, the Student Non‐Violent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and to an educational fund.
This mural featuring King and other figures that held significance to the cause of the Black Freedom Movement is from a series of murals painted by artists Richard Watson (1946 -) and Walter Edmonds (1938-2011) between 1973 and 1976 at Philadelphia’s Church of the Advocate.
