List of visits by Nobel Peace Prize laureates

This is a List of visits by Nobel Peace Prize laureates to the Birmingham District.

This list is incomplete and may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness. You can help Bhamwiki by expanding it.

List

• Theodore Roosevelt, won the Prize in 1906. He had visited Birmingham on a speaking tour on October 24, 1905, and returned in 1911 for the 1911 National Child Labor Committee Conference
• Jane Addams, addressed the 1911 National Child Labor Committee Conference in Birmingham and won the Prize in 1931.
• Ralph Bunche, won the prize in 1950 and visited Birmingham in February 1959
• Martin Luther King Jr won the prize in 1964, in part because of his leadership in the Birmingham Campaign
• Henry Kissinger won the prize in 1973 and delivered an address to the Southern Commodity Producers Conference in Birmingham on August 14, 1975
• The Dalai Lama won the prize in 1989 and visited Birmingham in October 2014
• Jimmy Carter won the prize in 2002 and has visited Birmingham several times, including a Habitat for Humanity work project in 2010
• Al Gore won the prize in 2007
• Barack Obama won the prize in 2009
• Leymah Gbowee won the prize in 2011 and spoke for the opening of the UAB Center for Human Rights on September 29, 2016

Several organizations that have had a long-lasting presence in Birmingham have also won the Nobel Prize, including the Red Cross, the Society of Friends (Quakers), and the International Labour Organization.

External links

• Nobel Peace Prize laureates at nobelprize.org