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Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarism allegations during his lifetime because the substantial claims about his doctoral dissertation and student papers were discovered and reported only decades after his ...
A late-1980s archival review by the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project found that King's 1955 Boston University dissertation included "large sections" of text taken from other writers without appro...
Papers Project has produced a multi-volume, annotated of King's writings and speeches that presents transcriptions, contextual essays, and editorial notes intended to trace sources and editorial prove...
Martin Luther King Jr. scholars treat FBI files as indispensable but compromised primary sources: they reveal extensive surveillance and a “rich human story,” yet must be read skeptically because the ...
Scholars who edited and reviewed Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers found multiple instances of unattributed borrowing across his student work — including significant passages in his 1955 doctoral disser...