It can probably be said that King borrowed from the idea of the speech by Carey (who was a friend of King’s), but only the last couple of paragraph’s resembled Carey’s speech and little of it is word-for-word.īoth men spun their remarks off the words of the song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” Some of them say he gave Cary’s speech word-for-word. Martin Luther King plagiarized his famous “I Have a Dream” speech- Disputed!Ĭritics have charged that King plagiarized that too by borrowing from a speech given to the Republican convention in 1952 by an African-American preacher named Archibald Carey, Jr. Papers Project discovered a lot of plagiarism in Martin Luther King’s writings and in a 1991 article in THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY said that “plagiarism was a general pattern evident in nearly all of his academic writings” including his doctoral dissertation. Martin Luther King plagiarized in college- Truth! said that his son’s given name was Martin Luther but that the doctor who delivered him put “Michael” on the birth certificate, something he didn’t know until much later. It was the name his father used and claimed to have given to his son.Īccording to, Martin Luther King, Sr. He didn’t pick the name Martin Luther out of the air, however. His name wasn’t Martin Luther King- Confusing!Īccording to all accounts, the name on Martin Luther King’s birth certificate is Michael and there is no evidence that he changed it. – Truth! & Fiction!Ī collection of alleged facts about Martin Luther King that are critical of the Civil Rights leader.
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