
Who was the youngest Nobel Prize winner? If you said Martin Luther King Jr., you are right! At the age of 35, King won the Nobel Peace Prize. He earned $54,123 and donated all of the money to the Civil Rights Fund. Here is a quote from his acceptance speech "I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when twenty-two million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice".
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