The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
The Reverend Martin Luther King being greeted on his return to the US after being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Baltimore, October 31, 1964
1964
(American, 1929–2006)
Image: 16.5 x 24.4 cm (6 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)
© Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
When he won in 1964, thirty-five-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.Description
The Nobel Peace Prize was given to Dr. King "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population.” In his acceptance speech, he identified three inextricably bound problems plaguing humanity: racial injustice, poverty, and war. He ended his talk by remarking, “I have the personal faith that mankind will somehow rise up to the occasion and give new directions to an age drifting rapidly to its doom.”- {{cite web|title=The Reverend Martin Luther King being greeted on his return to the US after being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Baltimore, October 31, 1964|url=false|author=Leonard Freed|year=1964|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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