The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to the crowd on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963, when he delivered his famous 'I Have a Dream'' speech.
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It's a wonder to think that all of what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished - the Montgomery Bus Boycott, founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the '63 March on Washington, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in '64 and more - was accomplished before he turned 40.
Dr. King was assassinated by a gunman at a motel in Memphis, April 4, 1968 when he was 39.
We've come far since then, yet we have far to go to fully realize the dream of Dr. King. Each year, we celebrate Dr. King's legacy on the third Monday of January, near his Jan. 15 birthday. The New Jersey annual King Commemorative ...