Boston U. Panel Finds Plagiarism by Dr. King

New York Slimes ^ | October 11, 1991

[Recovering_Democrat]

A committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded today that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at the university 36 years ago.

"There is no question," the committee said in a report to the university's provost, "but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation by appropriating material from sources not explicitly credited in notes, or mistakenly credited, or credited generally and at some distance in the text from a close paraphrase or verbatim quotation."

[fieldmarshaldj]

Alveda King ? That’s not his daughter, that’s his niece you’re talking about. She is nothing like her uncle, and that is a compliment.

[Cicero]

Thanks.