Fulfilling Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream: the role for higher education

By Roland V. Anglin, David D. Troutt, Elise Boddie, Nancy Cantor and Peter Englot . Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote “Why We Can’t Wait” to dispel the notion that African Americans should be content to proceed on an incremental course toward full equality under the law and in the wider society. King observed,

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse, and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Yet waiting and whispering, rather than raising their voices for genuine inclusion, is what many seem to expect of the children and grandchildren of King’s generation even today. More...