NAACP congratulates Obama's Nobel win, but what about MLK?

NAACP sent out a press release congratulating President Obama on his Nobel Prize and noting the storied company in which it puts him:

President Obama joins the likes of Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mother Teresa in winning the Nobel Peace Prize and is also only the third sitting President to receive this honor, with President Theodore Roosevelt and President Wilson preceding him. President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Al Gore are also Nobel Peace Prize winners after they left the White House.

But what Martin Luther King Jr.? Martin Luther King, Jr., who at age 35 in 1964 was the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace prize and turned over the prize money [$54,123] to advance the cause of civil rights. Click here to read more.

On a side note, on the nobel prize website, Obama won the Nobel peace prize award for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"