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?"
Ralph J. Bunche won the Nobel Prize in 1950 as the first Black Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He won the prize for his acting mediation in Palestine two years before hand.
Martin Luther King Junior was the first African American man (or woman) to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Ralph Joseph Bunche was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
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because he helped a lot in helping black people not to be segregated.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) became the first African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize when she won the Poetry category in 1950 with her collection, Annie Allen(Harper).Brooks was an acclaimed poet and author who published her first poem at age 13. She went on to become Poet Laureate of Illinois (1968) and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1985), both high honors.Over the course of her life, Brooks wrote 24 published books of poetry, including the celebrated work We Real Cool (1966), and five nonfiction titles.The Pool Players.Seven at the Golden Shovel.We real cool. WeLeft school. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeDie soon.To read more of Gwendolyn Brooks' poetry, see Related Links, below.
The 1964 Nobel Peace prize was given to Martin Luther King, Jr., who was, after Ralph Bunche, the second black American to win the award. He was, said Chairman Jahn of the Nobel committee, 'the first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence. He is the first to make the message of brotherly love a reality in the course of his struggle, and he has brought this message to all men, to all nations and races' (Source peace pledge unions) For more info go to the related link below.
he proved black people shouldn't be judge by color of skin and should be judge by whats on the inside. he also one a nobel peace prize, married an knowledgable African American woman named Corretta Scott King, and had i believe 3 or 4 children. he has sone many other things but those are some of the most recognized things.
Ralph J. Bunche in 1950
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.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Desmond Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize for peace. Toni Morrison won a Nobel Peace Price for literature.
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
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.
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Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela
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.
In the Peace category ( sometimes erroneously ALL Nobel awards are classed as Peac Prizes- not so. = Well the two Black Peace Laureates to date are Ralph Bunche and Dr. Martin Luther King, the latter in l962. to the best of my knowledge no Black person has ever been awarded any of the Nobel Scientific prizes- in the categories, of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and physiology ( one category) or the economics prize.
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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.