But when the municipality was off-limits to black families until the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled otherwise, the rededication takes on special significance.
The Burlington County community of Willingboro renamed Salem Road for King on Sunday.
Barbara Chaney, the sister of murdered civil rights activist James Chaney, was there.
Also on hand was Olympic icon Carl Lewis, who grew up in Willingboro, and Jesse Epps, the workers' rights advocate who helped get King to Memphis during a 1968 sanitation workers' strike, where he was assassinated.
