King's Nobel Peace Prize not celebrated

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> <br> 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> <br> 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.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> 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&#39;s hometown. <br> <br> Former President Jimmy Carter accepted the peace prize Tuesday in Norway -- becoming the only other Georgia ever to win the award. <br> <br> At 35, King was the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

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