Does anyone know where I can find the specifics of this study?
I’d like to know more about this too. Is there somewhere I can read about direct comparisons to other works? Does anyone know about Letter from a Birmingham Jail? I imagine it would have been hard to plagiarize for that, what with him being in jail, but not impossible.
Happy Martin Luther King Day, everyone.
I’m a big fan of King’s, despite his misdeeds, and I just want to know more. If you’re looking for a way to recognize today, I found a copy of the I Have a Dream speech in MP3. It’s pretty powerful stuff, IMHO.
I believe there is a page at http://www.snopes.com/ as well, but the site is down right now so I can’t verify that.
Both of those sites are a little more fair in their description on King.
A Google search of “martin luther king plagiarism” turned up this web page (decidedly anti-King), but has very cool side-by-sides of Archibald Carey’s 1952 I have a dream speech with King’s. http://chem-gharbison.unl.edu/mlk/plagiarism.html
Wow, thanks a lot, Dolphin. I was able to pull up the Snopes page. It looks like Stanford University found plagiarism in a lot of his academic work. It also looks like the last tenth or so of the “I Have a Dream” speech was copied from Carey’s speech.
The only thing that’s missing is the “many other writings and speeches” that Cecil mentions. I guess he meant academic writings, but I haven’t yet found anywhere that claims any speech was borrowed other than the 1963 Washington one.
