ATLANTA - Europe treated the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior like royalty when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. But public reaction was mixed in his hometown of Atlanta. <br>
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Some whites in Atlanta were outraged the prize was given to a man they considered a rabble-rouser. Senator Herman Talmadge said he was shocked to see the honor given to someone who advocated lawbreaking. <br>
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The Atlanta Journal published a letter from a Doraville man who said King ``has caused more racial strife and human misbehavior than any group leader in history.'' <br>
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Seventy-six-year-old Jesse Hill Junior was then a young insurance executive. He says the climate was not what it should have been in King's hometown. <br>
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Former President Jimmy Carter accepted the peace prize Tuesday in Norway -- becoming the only other Georgia ever to win the award. <br>
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At 35, King was the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
