Has Dr. King’s ‘Dream’ Been Realized?

Forty-five years after his death, Atlanta still remembers civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King.

King was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. Thursday evening, 45 years removed from the hour King was shot, officials at Atlanta’s King Center were set to kick off "The 50 Days of Nonviolence," a campaign aimed at getting youths to abstain from violence in the waning days of the school year, Reuters reported Thursday morning.

Many remember King for his “I Have a Dream” speech, where the activist spoke of the future he hoped for—the day when “all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’” Coincidentally, the 50th anniversary of King's "Dream" speech will fall on Aug. 28 of this year.

With King's indelible words in mind, we wanted to ask if you believe we’ve reached the day he once spoke of.

Has Dr. King’s “Dream” fully been realized? If not, what more do we have to do to bring about the world he longed for?

Share what’s on your mind with us, and then return here to see what your neighbors in Paulding, Douglas and Cobb have said.