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The Truth about Martin Luther King Jr

By Murray Bourne, 09 Jul 2006

While King's influence on the civil rights movement was overall a Good Thing, I found the King Papers Project interesting, considering he was quite a plagiariser.

Stanford's own King Encyclopedia gives some background but there is no mention of plagiarism.

Wikipedia has more on King's authorship issues.

Was his plagiarism sloppy academic writing or dishonesty? This is the dilemma we face every time we find that a student has copied...

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One Comment on “The Truth about Martin Luther King Jr”

  1. Vinod says:
    9 Jul 2006 at 3:17 pm [Comment permalink]

    If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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