34K views · 1.2K reactions | "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war." Watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful Nobel Peace Prize speech in which he accepted the award on behalf of the American civil rights movement: https://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/?id=1853 #MLKDay | Nobel Prize | Facebook

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 – as an “undaunted champion of peace” – for his nonviolent struggle to end racial segregation, a recognition which he accepted on behalf of the American civil rights movement for social justice. King was 39 when he died, assassinated on 4 April 1968, during a trip to support striking sanitation workers in the city of Memphis, USA. Watch King’s acceptance speech: http://goo.gl/kYuVMx | Nobel Prize