Burt Constable, Chicago Daily Herald
- On Aug. 28, 1963, a 34-year-old black preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. overcame fear and hatred and violence and jail and dogs and water hoses and nightsticks to stand in our nation’s capital and tell us about his dream.
Today, 46-year-old Barack Obama is one step away from being the first black-skinned man to win the White House.
It is OK to scream, “What took us so long?” and at the same time marvel at how quickly that barrier fell.
