Black Nobel Prize laureates

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List of Black Laureates

Nobel Prize in Literature

• 1986 Wole Soyinka became the first Black person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1992 Derek Walcott became the first West-Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1993 Toni Morrison became the first Black Woman to with the Nobel Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

• 1950 Ralph Bunche became the first Black to win the Nobel Prize
• 1960 Albert John Luthuli became the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1984 Desmond Tutu became the second South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1993 Nelson Mandela became the third South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
• 2001 Kofi Annan became the first Ghanaian to win the Nobel Prize
• 2004 Wangari Maathai became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Prize in Economics

• 1979 Sir William Arthur Lewis became the first Black to win a Nobel Prize other than Peace

See Also

• List of African-American firsts