{"id":328,"date":"2006-07-09T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2019-09-19T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:47:15","slug":"the-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/the-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr-328","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about Martin Luther King Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While King's influence on the civil rights movement was overall a Good Thing, I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu\/index.php\/kingpapers\/index\">King Papers Project<\/a> interesting, considering he was quite a plagiariser.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford's own <a href=\"https:\/\/kinginstitute.stanford.edu\/encyclopedia\">King Encyclopedia<\/a> gives some background but there is no mention of plagiarism. <\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._-_authorship_issues\">more on King's authorship issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Was his plagiarism sloppy academic writing or dishonesty? This is the dilemma we face every time we find that a student has copied...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/the-truth-about-martin-luther-king-jr-328#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While King's influence on the civil rights movement was overall a Good Thing, I found the King Papers Project interesting, considering he was quite a plagiariser. Stanford's own King Encyclopedia gives some background but there is no mention of plagiarism. Wikipedia has more on King's authorship issues. Was his plagiarism sloppy academic writing or dishonesty? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12107,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/12107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}