Third Grade
Worksheets
Prize for Peace
The Nobel Prize is awarded each year. It is given to a person who has done outstanding work for the world. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Prize for Peace when he was thirty-five years old. Each Nobel Prize winner also receives a gift of money. Dr. King received $54,123. He did not keep it for himself. He gave it to help continue the fight for civil rights.
His fight for civil rights began when he led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. In 1957 he helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1968, .....
