{"id":416302,"date":"2020-02-18T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T18:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=416302"},"modified":"2020-03-04T15:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T20:28:20","slug":"eddie-glaude-jr-remember-marting-luther-king-last-somber-years-416302","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/eddie-glaude-jr-remember-marting-luther-king-last-somber-years-416302\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember King&#8217;s last, somber years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ij4Pi264MQg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>To millions, Martin Luther King Jr. is frozen in time\u2014a civil rights leader assassinated in 1968 at age 39. But Princeton University professor <a href=\"\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/princeton-professor-eddie-glaude-jr-to-deliver-universitys-2020-mlk-commemorative-address-408252\/\">Eddie Glaude Jr.<\/a> believes many remember only King\u2019s inspirational moments and forget his final, somber years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this view of Dr. King leading the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, or his \u2018I Have a Dream\u2019 speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963,\u201d says Glaude, who delivered the <a href=\"\/\/www.rochester.edu\/\">University of Rochester\u2019s<\/a> annual <a href=\"\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/celebrating-two-decades-of-the-mlk-commemorative-address-413042\/\">Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address<\/a> on January 24 at Strong Auditorium. \u201cBut we have to grapple with his later despair and disillusionment. In 1968, King was five years sadder and trying desperately to get the country to live up to its promise. He was trying to change the consciousness of America,. But nobody heard it, nobody cared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton, and chair of the department of African American studies. He has written for the <em>New York Times <\/em>and<em> Time <\/em>magazine and has been a guest on MSNBC and NBC\u2019s <em>Meet the Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Glaude says \u201cdeath rewrites the earlier moments of King\u2019s life.\u201d By the time of his murder, he says, King was disillusioned by the country\u2019s direction, and the black power militancy exhibited by youths whose dreams of social equality had been dashed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that he said on April 3, the day before he was murdered, \u2018We have some difficult days ahead, and I may not get there with you,&#8217; is telling,\u2019\u2019 Glaude says. \u201cHe understood there were dark times in front of us before we could reach the promised land. He dedicated his life for the promise that America would live up to its stated commitments. When viewed from the lens of today, we still have a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his speech, Glaude met with University student leaders at Douglass Leadership House. He stressed that, while King is critical to the civil rights movement, those students\u2014and millions of others\u2014can fill that void.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe long for a Dr. King or an Abe Lincoln, because we don\u2019t see our own capabilities as being sufficient,\u201d Glaude told the students. \u201cHistory converged in a way that called Dr. King forward, and he answered the call. That can happen with anybody. We don\u2019t need another Martin Luther King. We need every day ordinary people. We are the leaders we\u2019ve been looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHistory converged in a way that called Dr. King forward, and he answered the call,\u201d said Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude Jr., who delivered the University of Rochester\u2019s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address. \u201cThat can happen with anybody. We don\u2019t need another Martin Luther King. We need every day ordinary people. 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