This morning I met Gloria Robinson. She's a retired Shelby County sheriff's department official. She was just 5 years old when King was killed, but she says her parents told her about it a lot. And so she really feels an ownership of this day.
Longtime Petaluma activist Gloria Robinson agrees, worrying that the urgency of the quest for civil rights has cooled and that young people today have been lulled by the end of the formal, harsh segregation that she experienced as a young woman in Miami.