Did Martin Luther King plagiarise his thesis paper?
Sadly, some part of the paper was lifted from the work of other researchers. Plagiarism is the worst ethical problem in today’s academic world. Students do it and so do faculty. Google has made it absurdly easy. But you should be cautioned that faculty have sites that will check sources if a prof submits questionable work. The pressure to get the dis done and the inability of some scholars to write passable prose or do serious research causes the problem. 34 people started on the road to the Ph.D. in our group. Seven of us finished and several after many years and taking quals for a second time. In all cases the problem was the dis. I saw a hotshot young History prof. publish his second book one month after he assumed his first academic position at Illinois. Then it was found that the central chapter was word-for-word the Masters thesis of an old high school teacher. He was frozen out of Madison and ended up at some Canadian community college. I saw a man who had been hung up on the di
