Forty years ago, on the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of his Memphis hotel room.四十年前，傍晚1968年4月4日，马丁路德金被暗杀，因为他站立在阳台上，他孟菲斯的酒店房间。 He was 39.他是39 。

Since his death, we’ve struggled as a nation to reconcile race-based inequities that King spoke so forcefully about in his most famous speech — “I Have a Dream.”自他死后，我们已经奋斗，作为一个民族和解的基于种族的不公平现象，使国王以有力地约在他最著名的演讲-“我有一个梦想” 。