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Nobel Peace Received Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became the second African American to win the Nobel Prize. The first African American to receive the Nobel Prize had been Ralph Bunche. King, who was 35 years of age when he received the prize in Oslo Norway, was the youngest recepient of the prize in history.