Yay! Lauren asked a good question. Most history classes today gloss over the fact that Martin Luther Kind Jr. plagiarised a lot in his academic career.
Here is my comment to her comment (on the first of the two Nobel Prize posts):
Yes he did.
Martin Luther King plagiarized in college-Truth!
The staff at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project discovered a lot of plagiarism in Martin Luther King's writings and in a 1991 article in THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY said that "plagiarism was a general pattern evident in nearly all of his academic writings" including his doctoral dissertation.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/mlk.htm
See also: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlking.asp (I could not copy the part that I wanted to over to here.)
Those were in the top five of searching "Martin Luther King Jr Plagiarism" in Google. The story broke when you were a baby. Also, history books tend to just gloss over it all. I admit he had a great cause that he championed, but there is NO excuse for plagiarism.
~The Short One
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