October 16, 1991

Plagiarism by Martin Luther King Affirmed by Scholars at Boston U.

By Ellen K. Coughlin

A committee of scholars established by Boston University to investigate charges that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., plagiarized significant portions of his doctoral dissertation has concluded that the document does contain substantial "misappropriation" of others' writings.

"There is no question," the committee said in a report issued last week, "but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation by appropriating material from sources not explicitly credited in notes, or mistakenly

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