It was discovered years after his death that Martin Luther King Jr had plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation and other scholastic papers. A panel of scholars at Boston University investigated his dissertation after Kings wife donated it to the Stanford University King Papers Project. They had discovered that portions of his dissertation heavily contained sentences and long paragraphs taken from another student’s paper, and the student was not quoted or cited. The dissertation and academic papers are not the only thing King has plagiarized, it’s also been said that parts of his speeches contain plagiarism from other reverends. King was a scholar and very important public figure and almost had his doctorate taken away and his