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，馬丁路德金被暗殺，因為他站立在陽台上，他孟菲斯的酒店房間。 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.”自他死後，我們已經奮鬥，作為一個民族和解的基於種族的不公平現象，使國王以有力地約在他最著名的演講-“我有一個夢想” 。