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

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imageWho is responsible for today's campus troubles?Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

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,

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