Dead Marxist asked:

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s papers were donated by his wife Coretta Scott King to Stanford University’s King Papers Project. During the late 1980s, as the papers were being organized and worked on, the staff of the project made a discovery that dismayed them — King’s doctoral dissertation at Boston University, titled A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman, included large sections from a dissertation written by another student (Jack Boozer) three years earlier at Boston University.

As Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project at Stanford University has written, “instances of textual appropriation can be seen in his earliest extant writings as well as his dissertation. The pattern is also noticeable in his speeches and sermons throughout his career.”

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/additional_resources/articles/palimp.htm

I think it would be a fitting tribute, don’t you?

LIL’ buggy asked:

Funny how after the holidays its going up again….doesn’t it do that every year? any body else see the pattern?