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Dr King receives the Nobel Prize for Peace from Gunnar Jahn, president of the Nobel Prize Committee, on December 10, 1964, in Oslo, Norway.
Soon after he returned from Norway, King busied himself with tackling new challenges. In Selma, Alabama, he led a voter-registration campaign that ended in the Selma-to-Montgomery Freedom March.
From Selma, he went to Chicago, where he launched programmes to rehabilitate slum-dwellers. But King realised that he was not able to address a large, and angry, black constituency in the north.
So he evolved a new strategy and dived right into the anti-Vietnam war protests. Suddenly the horizons of the civil rights movement broadened as students, professors, intellectuals, clergymen and reformers rushed in. King then deftly turned their attention inwards towards poverty and planned massive 'camp-ins' in cities to force the government to take downtrodden Americans into account.