Scholar and diplomat Ralph J. Bunche was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950.
Toni Morrison, was the first African American woman to win a nobel prize in literature in 1993
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Ralph Bunche was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He won the award in 1950 for his work of peacemaking efforts in Palestine.
Toni Morrison
Although Camus was the first African born winner he did not win the award as an African. He was considered French. The first African born, African winner was Wole Soyinka who was an African writer from Nigeria who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, and was the first African who ever won the award. He wrote an autobiography called, "The Man Died" in 1972.
Toni Morrison in 1993
Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
Theodore Roosevelt became the 1st American awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906. He had assisted in mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
Ralph J. Bunche
Langston Hughes did not win a Nobel Prize. Hughes was an African American poet that won a Poetry prize in 1919.
None, as Russian does not give a Peace Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize is given by the Nobel Prize committee in Sweden.