Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Martin Luther King Jr. has received all the following honors, except one. Which did he NOT receive?"
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. His life and work have been honored with a national holiday, public buildings named after him, and a memorial in Washington, D.C. At age 35, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter. In 1971 he was posthumously awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for his Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam. King has never been awarded the Pulitzer Prize.