Wangari Maathai won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work with the Green Belt Movement advising poor women to plant over 3 million trees and standing up to an oppressive Kenyan government.
Gwendolyn Brooks
While Gwendolyn Brooks was a wonderful poet, she neither won the Nobel Prize in any category nor was she African. The first African woman to win the Nobel Prize Was Wangari Maathai. Dr. Maathai won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2004. The first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize was Toni Morrison in1993. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Angari Maathai, environmentalist from Kenya
During a star-studded concert hosted by Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise, Maathai was feted by top celebrities
Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his work for a peace treaty in the Russo Japanese War (Nobel Peace Prize)
A Nobel Price for peace in December of 1964.
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?"
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Scholar and diplomat Ralph J. Bunche was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950.
None, as Russian does not give a Peace Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize is given by the Nobel Prize committee in Sweden.
Ralph Bunche was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his mediation in Palestine.
Dr. Ralph Bunche from USA won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950
Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was the second African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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
Ralph J. Bunche
New president of US Barack Obama
No, Thurgood Marshall did not win a Nobel Peace Prize. He was a prominent civil rights lawyer and the first African American justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.