Saturday 25th May 2013 01:45 AM

October 14, 1964 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize. Only 35 years old, he was the youngest person ever to receive the award. In addition to leading the civil rights movement, King was an outspoken advocate for worker rights, particularly for the underrepresented in society. His policy of civil disobedience proved effective not only for African-Americans seeking a seat at a white-only lunch counter in the 1960s, but for miners struggling for justice in the Pittson Coal strike of the late 1980s. Nonviolence, King said, “is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.”